Researchers have laid out a new, comprehensive theory for how the solar system formed — inside the bubble of a long-dead, giant star.

According to a new study, a low-mass supernova roughly 12 times heavier than our sun may have triggered a gravitational collapse that eventually created our solar system.

Scientists with the University of Chicago have laid out a comprehensive theory for how our solar system could have formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a giant, long-dead star.

How Did the Solar System Form? The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.

How Did the Solar System Form? The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.

Taken together, these results suggest that the formation of the Solar System in a triggered star formation event is as improbable, if not more so, than the direct pollution of the protosolar disc ...

NASA's spacecraft Lucy has already started its four-billion-mile odyssey to the "fossils" of the solar system, looking to solve the mysteries of our cosmic home ...

A new view of the solar system's early days proposes that the first two kinds of solid materials — the precursors of space rocks and ultimately planets — both formed at the same time.

A new computer model suggests that the natural satellites of planets in our solar system may have formed from rings of matter, rather than from the clouds of gas currently thought to have created ...

Scientists are looking at a new way moons in the early solar system could have formed – from giant rings surrounding their planet. Even Earth and tiny Pluto could have harbored a ring at one point.