An international team of astronomers including Stella Offner of the University of Texas at Austin has proposed a new method for the formation of aluminum-26 in star systems that are forming planets.

Members of the NAI UCLA team led by Ed Young are using high-precision analysis of tiny grains in meteorites to probe the earliest history of the solar nebula. The age of the solar system is set at ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Researchers at Michigan State University’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, NSCL, have created three never-before-observed isotopes of magnesium and aluminum. The ...

This is a false-color, detailed, backscattered electron picture of an aluminum-rich chondrule from the Semarkona chondrite (Green: glass. Purple: high-calcium pyroxene). This kind of chondrule is rare ...

RAON laser application system. CLaSsy is a collinear laser spectroscopy system and RILIS is a laser ion source. Courtesy of IBS. A laser spectroscopy experiment that analyzes the energy structure of ...

In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team including planetary scientists has compared the composition of the sun to the composition of the most ancient materials ...

In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team of researchers, including planetary scientist and cosmochemist James Lyons of Arizona State University, has compared ...

(Nanowerk News) By analyzing the oxygen isotopes (varieties of an element that have some extra neutrons) of these refractory inclusions, the research team has determined that the differences in ...