Once they’re settled in resonant orbits, however, Clement and his colleagues Solar System-sized signposts will exist for at least 10 billion years — maybe even longer, if the planets in ...

An upcoming mission will travel within a few million miles of the sun to collect data on how our star affects the whole solar system. Testing of the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter is now ...

To transport our planet across the universe, we would need to bring the whole solar system to sustain life on Earth – on this episode of Dead Planets Society, our hosts contemplate how to ...

“Our Solar System’s Kuiper Belt long appeared to be very small in comparison with many other planetary systems,” Wes Fraser, ...

This would tend to destabilise the whole inner solar system and could lead to a catastrophic collision between Earth and either Mercury or Mars, wiping out any life still present at that time.

Suddenly I had questions about the whole solar system, and so did the rest of The Atlantic’s Science desk. As one of my colleagues asked, when I told him about the true nature of Venus, ...

The planets of our solar system change in position while orbiting a central star, the sun. ... (720,000 kilometers per hour) and dragging the whole solar system along with it. ...

Something in that polar reversal process, we call it, is tied to how the sun's magnetic field works, which is the thing that propagates through the whole solar system. KHALID: While scientists ...

Other material is rocky debris left over from collisions in the early solar system. These near-Earth objects (NEOs) can be a concern, so they are tracked to ensure they are not a threat to our planet.

The location of the solar system's outer boundary is a point of contention among astronomers. There are three possible candidates, which "all have merit." But which one is best?