An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
The great planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and ...
The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.
This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...
The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar system.