Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests that the outer solar system could become dynamically ...

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Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...