There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...

ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions (3-5 ... including their elliptical paths around the sun. Orbits may change due to the gravitational effects from, or collisions with, other ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

Puzzlingly, unlike our own solar system, it appears this newfound ... CHEOPS telescope spies its 1st alien worlds To-scale animation of the orbits of the six newfound planets in the HD110067 ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy posits that Jupiter was significantly larger earlier in its history and its more ...

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 ...

A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

"For 98% to 99% of the solar system's lifetime, the planets' orbits have been nice and stable," Raymond said. As a result, you can use the planets' current orbital dynamics to make a pretty ...

but with densities closer to the gas giants in our own solar system. Pitts said most of the planets are smaller than Neptune. Their orbits range from nine to 54 days, putting them closer to their ...

The six found so far are roughly two to three times the size of Earth, but with densities closer to the gas giants in our own solar system. Their orbits range from nine to 54 days, putting them ...