solar system

black and white image, close-up of crystalline dust fragment

UChicago, Field Museum scientists discover oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

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Blue crystals in meteorites show that sun behaved like ‘high-energy toddler’

Recently discovered solar system could seed life between adjacent exoplanets

Research proposes new theories about nature of Earth’s iron

Solar system could have evolved from poorly mixed elemental soup

Cosmochemists find evidence of rare element in early solar system

Exploding star missing from formation of solar system

Compton Lecture series on ‘Constructing the Solar System’ to begin Oct. 6

Organics probably formed easily in early solar system