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How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and ...
IFLScience

The Solar System May Be Over A Million Years Older Than Thought

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Astronomy

How old is each planet in our solar system?

The solar system is 4.54 billion years old, based on rock dating. Gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) likely formed first. Ice giants (Uranus and Neptune) probably formed next. Rocky planets formed last, ...
The Conversation

Sahara space rock 4.5 billion years old upends assumptions about the early Solar System

Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a ...
New York Post

‘Earth-like’ Planet Nine could be hiding in our solar system: research

There may be another world lurking between the orbital lines of our solar system. Astronomers in Japan have published their theory of an “Earth-like planet,” dubbed Planet Nine, that’s hiding in plain ...
New Scientist

Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is hurtling out of the solar system at an incredible speed. It is currently about 8 billion kilometres from the sun, and by the time you finish reading this story, it ...