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

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

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

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

Scientists from Stellenbosch University in South Africa have designed a new gravity ... “The system is suitable for renewable energy sources in particular wind and solar and is flexible in ...

Astronomers studying data from the Juno spacecraft discovered a volcanic hot spot in the Southern Hemisphere of Jupiter’s moon Io. The volcanic region belches out eruptions six times the total energy ...

As more matter got pulled in, the centre got denser, increasing the gravity and pulling even more dust inwards. 'About 99.9% of the material fell into the middle of the cloud and became the Sun. Once ...

In either case, Jupiter's gravity played and still plays a major role in clearing out the inner Solar System of the largest ...