Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research suggests ...

Astronomers have witnessed the creation of a solar system for the first time. Data captured by the ALMA telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope showed planets forming around a star in ...

The sun, the planets and asteroids in our solar system were all formed about 4,560 million years ago from a "common ancestor", a Science Week Ireland lecture was told in Dublin last night. Dr Ian ...

Astronomers have observed a solar system being formed for the first time, as hot gas condenses into solid minerals around the baby star (Picture: ESO) Astronomers have witnessed the creation of a ...

Analysis: more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system have been detected by astronomers to date. The question of whether we are alone in the universe has long gripped humanity, and never before ...

The solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago by the explosion of a star at the end of its life cycle, according to a groundbreaking study of meteorites. Research suggests a low-mass supernova was ...

An interstellar visitor may have warped the solar system billions of years ago, a new study has claimed. Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...

Scientists have long puzzled over how our solar system’s planets formed, because this isn’t a process they can watch unfold. Researchers have generally thought that Jupiter and Saturn grew out of ...

Irish scientists have made a major discovery on how stars, plants and ultimately us came into being. An international team, led by scientists from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), has ...