Ancient Asteroid Unlocks 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Secrets of the Solar System
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
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NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe’s Beginning
The agency’s PUNCH mission caught a ride to Earth orbit with SPHEREx, which will map the entire sky to learn more about what ...
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Higher tier: Formation of the Sun and other stars
Our Sun was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud called a stellar nebula, mainly made up of hydrogen gas and dust. The nebula collapsed under its own gravity and, as it did ...
SpaceX rocket carrying NASA's newest space telescope launches from California
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...
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NASA’s Hubble finds Kuiper Belt duo may be trio
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, ...
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How the Earth and moon formed, explained
The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...
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Formation of the Sun and other stars
The Solar System was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from ... to heat and radiation pressure from the fusion reactions. The Sun is expected to be a main sequence star for billions of years.