Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

But in reality, our Solar System’s disk is far from flat. The whole system is actually warped. If those intro depictions were more accurate, the orbits of the planets would be more eccentric ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

The key evidence for Planet X's existence comes from observations of unusual orbits of objects in the Kuiper Belt—a region located at the outer edges of the Solar System. As g.pl explains ...

NASA explained this phenomenon of the four planets: "The closest to the star, HR 8799 e, orbits 2.4 billion kilometers from its star, which in our solar system would be located between the orbits ...

Not only does this system ... solar system, including worlds so light they can be compared to marshmallows, worlds so hot they rain liquid metal or glass, and now, a world that weirdly orbits ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational ... time taken to orbit the Sun increases, eg Mercury orbits once every 88 Earth days, but Neptune orbits once ...

Far from a simple story of stable orbits, the creation of our Solar System is a tale of hellfire, chaos and planetary pinball. It’s a miracle our Earth is here at all.

Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt—a vast region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where more than a million asteroids circle the sun.

An exoplanet—also called an extrasolar planet—is a planet outside a solar system that orbits another star ... providing a 25-year record of accurate star positions and motions. It revealed that the ...

This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas ...

"It's a different way of experiencing the mechanics of the solar system for yourself," said Catherine ... "We know about it theoretically, we know that the moon orbits the Earth and they might ...