Unravelling the subtle mysteries of our solar system’s birth

By Peter Spinks
Updated May 12 2015 - 5:14pm, first published May 4 2015 - 12:15am
The Milky Way galaxy contains our entire solar system.
The Milky Way galaxy contains our entire solar system.

About 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began in a big bang. With it was born space, time and a fiery soup of exotic subatomic particles. Of this, cosmologists are reasonably confident.

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