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

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

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

A new study, currently under review for publication, suggests that an ancient cosmic visitor might have significantly altered the orbits of our solar system's giant planets. Scientists propose that ...

A close encounter with a mysterious interstellar object could explain the current orbits of several of Earth’s largest ...

CosmoScout VR is an open-source simulation of our solar system developed at the Institute for Software Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It is primarily aimed at the interactive ...

Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of ...