Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

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

But for several reasons, seasons on Mars are different from those ... Olympus Mons, the solar system’s largest volcano, towers some 16 miles above the Martian surface, making it three times ...

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed ... Obliquity influences the intensity of temperature in each season: greater tilt creates more intense temperatures, while less ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

Do you know what causes the seasons? Child: Is it the sun ... Earth is one of eight planets in a group called the solar system, but only Earth has living things on it. At the centre of the ...