A study by Japan’s Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) found that the gas giant was most likely born 1.8 million years after the solar system began.

On the scale of a human life, nothing much seems to happen. But on a cosmic timescale, our humble solar system is a wildly exciting place: an action movie played in extreme slow motion.

Our data suggest that Bennu’s parent asteroid formed in the outer parts of the solar system, possibly beyond the orbit of Saturn.” A second paper looked at the presence of water alterations.

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.

Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Properties of Debris Dust Around Solar-Type Stars Object Details Author Carpenter, John M. Bouwman, Jeroen Mamajek, Eric E. Meyer, Michael R. Hillenbrand, ...

But the final stage of planet formation in our solar system may have taken much longer - up to a hundred million years or so. This was not only the last major addition of material to the Earth, but ...

Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet residing in our solar system. Try your hand at naming the others!

Alloin, D. M (Danielle M.) 1944- NATO Advanced Study Institute on Planets Outside the Solar System: Theory and Observations (1998 : Cargèse, France) Notes "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study ...

Just six miles in diameter, our little neighbor is so small that no telescope has been powerful enough to notice it orbiting around Uranus.

Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find One possibility, he suggests: it's a "spacecraft powered by nuclear energy." ...

Still, the implications are profound. Ceres is far from alone in the solar system. Dozens of small, icy bodies — dwarf planets, moons, and asteroids — could have had similar histories.