DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

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

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

Planetary scale model trails are letting cycling enthusiasts pedal their way through the cosmos. These trails are designed ...

This study challenges traditional models of solar system formation, which predict that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune should have nearly circular and flat orbits. The research suggests that ...

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well ...

Researchers have pioneered an innovative method using helioseismology to measure the solar radiative opacity under extreme ...

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 star-size object visited the solar system and tweaked these planets' paths. The team carried out 50,000 simulations of such events, using computer models of the four outer planets, each over 20 ...