Currently, the best model scientists have for the formation of the solar system is known as the Nice model, after the town in France, where it was first developed in 2005.

On May 26, 2005, in the journal Nature, a team of planetary scientists published its results from a computer simulation of the early solar system.Some 7.5 years later, the Nice model remains the ...

This model -- known as the Nice Model (after the city of Nice, France) -- held sway as the leading theory of our Solar System's formation until less than a month ago.

Birth of a cataclysm. A simulation of the outer solar system’s early evolution known as the Nice model tracks the planets’ orbits from soon after the birth of the solar system through the ...

Solar-system specialist Craig Agnor of Queen Mary, University of London says the simulations are “excellent work” and a “possible missing piece” linking the Nice model to today’s planetary ...

Wanderers CU is a responsive sound experience delivered via a mobile app that responds to the visitor’s movement as sensed by GPS. A complement to the Colorado Scale Model Solar System represented by ...

The main sequence star Sol sits at the center of a pretty nice system on the outer edge of a spiral galaxy. I did a full revolution on its third planet, and the view was great.

The planets in our solar system weren't always in the order they are today. Four billion years ago, early in the solar system's evolution, Uranus and Neptune switched places, according to new work ...

Five years after spotting 'Oumuamua, the first known object from beyond our solar system passing through, scientists are still figuring out what the strange object says about planetary systems.

Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh decided to drive out to the Nevada desert and create a to-scale model of the solar system, showing the true relative distance of each planet from one another and ...

What observers don’t see are solar system configurations like our own: rocky planets in the inner realms and gas giants on the outside, all taking months, years, decades, or more than a century ...