How Did the Solar System Form? The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.

ALIEN SOLAR SYSTEM. How would our solar system appear from afar? This artist’s view reveals dust and debris left from a disk of material that formed planets when the solar system was young.

NASA's spacecraft Lucy has already started its four-billion-mile odyssey to the "fossils" of the solar system, looking to solve the mysteries of our cosmic home ...

The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and dust, twisting through the universe without direction or form. About 4.6 billion years ago, this gigantic cloud was ...

– Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ago.

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn how our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust more than 4.5 billion years ago. Watch video that features real satellite imagery as well as ...

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.

Having a blast Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.

How old rocks tell us new things about Solar System formation Researchers examine meteorites containing material from our Solar System's birth.

Home > Science How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form? A long time ago in an arm of the galaxy about three kiloparsecs away, our Solar System began to take shape.

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 ...