The curious minds at What If investigate the cosmic chaos caused by swapping the orbits of certain planets in our solar system.

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

ESA's Gaia mission has determined he orbits of 154,741 asteroids in our solar system. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets ...

16, 2025 — Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over ... of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ... The Heart of World's Largest Solar ... body that orbits the sun ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

Tokyo-based company ispace aims to land its "Resilience" spacecraft in the moon's Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") region on June 5, notching a big milestone for Japan and for commercial spaceflight.