When most of us learn about the solar system, it seems like a pretty well-ordered place. Our sun formed first, about five billion years ago, and the planets appeared a little later. As a very general ...

The early solar system was a violent place: it wasn't just asteroids, but whole planets that veered on strange courses. (Photo credit: NASA) When most of us learn about the solar system, it seems like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you were to look at our Universe at the time our Solar System formed ...

In an article published in the journal Icarus, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) and collaborators report the findings of a study reconstituting the formation of the dwarf planet Ceres ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

Our solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old. Previous analyses of ancient meteorites have shown that minerals were created through chemical reactions with water as far back as 4.5 ...

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. Our solar system’s formation ...

Wolf-Rayet star is more than 40 to 50 times the size of our sun. Washington: Scientists have found how our solar system was formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a giant, long-dead star. Despite the ...

There are various theories about how the solar system formed, but scientists haven't been able to agree on a single model that explains all the quirks of our corner of space as it exists today. Now, ...

According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System's formation was triggered by a shock wave from an exploding supernova. It injected material from the exploding star into a neighboring cloud of ...