An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

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