10 incredible volcanoes in our solar system The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a giant rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. Gravity caused the nebula to ...

This allowed for the formation of the gas giants—Jupiter and Saturn—and ... a low-temperature instance of this process. The early solar system was a dynamic and turbulent environment, where ...

The fifth rock from the sun and the biggest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is what’s known as a gas giant – a ball of hydrogen and helium – unlike rocky Earth and Mars. Jupiter is an ...