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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even textbooks must pick size or distance as the scale to represent with any accuracy. Several dozen science museums around the world have taken on the challenge of accurately representing both ...