Earth and Mars in comparison ... In the process, our young Jupiter disrupted the planetary building blocks that would have allowed Mars to form a larger mass planet. Without Jupiter (and its ...

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

Research by astronomers, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), challenges current theories about the formation of ...

Smaller gas giants are less likely to survive in such systems, surrounded by clashing planetary titans. With their lower ...

Jupiter is huge when it comes to planets in our solar system, but it turns out there's actually an upper limit when it comes ...

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

"This was, for instance, explored in neutron stars, the solar corona and even on planets in our solar system like Jupiter ... on Earth. "The resonant conversion occurs if the mass of the dark ...

Compared with Earth ... Mars inside which gravitational tidal forces from the planet become too great and tear apart any interloping body. The distance of the Roche limit varies depending on the ...