On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe is set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun when it flies within a few ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...

The moderate tilts and slightly elongated paths of these planets — long considered a mystery — could be the result of a ...

The evolution of the orbits of the planets is a complex process. Initially the planets formed out of a rotating disk of gas ...

Massive object passing through solar system is a better explanation for nature of orbits of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune ...

All the planets revolve around it on roughly ... units — that's 20 times the distance between the Sun and the Earth — of the solar system's center, it could explain the bizarre orbits we ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Indian astronomers from Odisha 's National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) have uncovered a ...

But the formation process of multi-planet systems, like our own Solar System, is still poorly understood. The best example object to study multi-planet system formation is a young star known as ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

These solar system objects are like icy asteroids ... TNOs are small bodies, or 'planetesimals,' orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. They never accreted into planets, and serve as pristine time ...