Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

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

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

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 ...

While most models of solar system formation predict perfectly circular and coplanar orbits for the planets, reality presents a slightly different picture. Successful Simulations: Approximately 1% ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational ... for example, Mercury orbits once every 88 Earth days, but Neptune orbits once every 165 Earth years For ...

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

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...