A recent study by a few researchers from the Arizona State University have outdated the earlier believe that the solar system is two million years old with the unearthing of a space rock that studies have shown to be about $.5683 billion years old.

This age of the solar system, which is beyond 2 million years and 1.9 million years more than the former estimate is supposed to the most precise age that has been calculated till date. This lead was detected by Meenakshi Wadhwa and co-researcher Audrey Bouvier while scrutinizing a meteorite known as the NWA 2364.

A piece of a the meteorite, which fell in Morocco in 2004, of about 1 centimeter length was being examined and it was found that it consisted of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusion, or CAI which is believed to be one of the first solids that was formed when the solar system was being created making them reliable indicators of age of the solar system.

On further examination of the isotopes in the CIA, it was observed that two of them were a result of radioactive degeneration of uranium while a third was not any decay creation and equating these with the rate of decay of uranium the conclusion obtained by researchers was 4.5682 billion years.