While the upcoming total solar eclipse is a special moment to reflect on our place in the universe, scientists have been studying the birth of the sun and the formation of our solar system for a long ...

New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a "fossil record" dating back to the formation of the sun. The research reveals that magnetism played a far greater role in the birth of the ...

Microscopic particles in the ancient meteorite have preserved traces of the magnetic field that existed in the first 200 thousand years of the formation of the Solar system. The discovery indicates ...