Prevailing theoretical models attempting to explain the formation of the solar system have assumed it to be average. Now a new study by Northwestern University astronomers -- the first to model ...

Researchers have successfully simulated the initial size and mass distribution of the building blocks of planets and asteroids known today. The computer model also explains how these original ...

Today, Matthias Gritschneder at Peking University in Beijing and a few pals unveil a new computer simulation of the formation of the Solar System that clearly favours the supernova hypothesis.

To unravel the mystery of Jupiter's birth, scientists turned their attention to meteorites. These cosmic 'messengers' carry a ...

A new theory of the solar system's formation provides an alternative to the idea our system formed from a supernova.

Scientists have used the world's fastest supercomputer to create the largest simulation of the cosmos ever created.

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 ...

“The fact that a simulation of planet formation produces an end state in good agreement with the observed solar system does not prove that the simulated events actually happened,” he writes.

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 ...