Standard planet-formation models have been unable to reconstruct the distributions of the Solar System's small, rocky planets and asteroids in the same simulation. A new analysis suggests that it ...

Astronomers know that our solar system formed about 5 billion years ago from material left over from previous generations of stars. However, beyond that, it gets a little murky. The prevailing theory ...

Today, let's talk about something super mysterious! A detector has discovered an icy comet in the Kuiper Belt, and this has ...

(Image: The Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 in the constellation Sagittarius, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.) The prevailing theory of the formation of the solar system is that a large, nearby supernova ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Oxford, LMU Munich, ETH Zurich, BGI Bayreuth, and the University of Zurich discovered that a two-step formation process of the early Solar ...

For several decades, scientists have debated whether the Solar System formed as a result of a shock wave from an exploding star -- a supernova -- that triggered the collapse of a dense, dusty gas ...

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 ...

A new study published by University of Chicago researchers challenges the notion that the force of an exploding star caused the formation of the solar system. In this study, authors Haolan Tang and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new view of the solar system's early days proposes that the first two kinds of solid materials ...