A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

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 of Software Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It is primarily aimed at the interactive ...

A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of the four outer planets in our ...

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 ...

Astronomers have sent artificial satellites (satellites that are manmade) to orbit several Solar System objects, including Jupiter, the asteroid Vesta and Mars. Polar orbits take the satellites ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of our Solar System. The planet sizes tested were 1 percent of Earth's mass, ...

“We predict the existence of an Earth-like planet and several TNOs on peculiar orbits in the outer solar system,” write the authors, Patryk Sofia Lykawka of Kindai University, Japan and ...