New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered … ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

Discover the new insights into solar system formation through pebble accretion theory and groundbreaking computer simulations.

Their new study offers a bold explanation, one that could shift how we think about planetary evolution across the solar system. For years, the leading theory borrowed from Earth’s own history.

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

This is like getting a baby picture of our own solar system,' says Gabriel Weible, University of Arizona graduate student who ...

As only the third interstellar object ever discovered, 3I/ATLAS offers a rare chance to study remnants of solar systems ...

If everything in our solar system formed from the same solar nebula, why do the planets have different compositions? Herbert Wich Titusville, Florida To better understand why the planets have ...