The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar system.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be visible all at once this month. Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets.

told Live Science. In the paper, the researchers describe how they modeled the orbits of the four outer planets and performed 50,000 simulations of a large object passing through the solar system ...