The solar system was literally turning ... The key to testing the Nice model is mapmaking. Charting the composition and orbits of distant objects should reveal whether and how the planets cast ...

As a result, thousands of smaller celestial bodies in the outer solar system ... elongated orbits. Until now, there was no explanation for this phenomenon. "The beauty of this model lies in ...

The NASA simulation on its Pleiades supercomputer simulated the orbits of ... the existing model of the Oort Cloud and indicate the influence of forces outside our solar system.

They can perturb orbits and give a little ... pull of the sun," said Gregg. "For this model, we assumed Alpha Centauri acts similarly to our solar system. We simulated various ejection velocity ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system – using ... ran a series of model simulations that pointed to ...

providing fresh insight into planetary evolution beyond our solar system. A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation ...

Nathan Kaib, co-author of the study and astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute, stated it is plausible for the Solar System to have ... significantly elongated orbits, unlike the near ...

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 ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... which are typically larger and have small, circular orbits close to the equator of their host planet; and irregular moons, which can ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...