This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...

The solar system is made up of the Sun (our nearest star) and the objects that orbit around it, including planets, asteroids and comets. Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths ...

A new study in astrophysics has found why some planets’ paths have certain peculiar features. The formation of the solar ...

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

When an exoplanet is discovered, scientists are quick to describe it and explain its properties. Now, we know of thousands of ...

New research has revealed that Hot Jupiters do not always push away or destroy nearby planets during their migration. This ...

Brown dwarfs typically have masses between about 15 and 75 times the mass of Jupiter The researchers performed even more simulations, this time including the orbits of the inner planets (Mercury ...