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 two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...