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

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

I came across an interactive NASA tool called Solar System Simulator. On it, you can view objects in our solar system from ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar space after completing its grand tour of the solar system at the time. Carl ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Planets in our solar system orbit the Sun in different orbits in three-dimensional space. Scientists have claimed that an interstellar visitor, much larger than any celestial body in our solar ...

Keep your eyes on the sky. Six planets in our solar system are coming into alignment and will be visible from Earth. AccuWeather says Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will be ...

Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.

Geomagnetic storms also cause problems on Earth. The electric currents they create can overload power plants and cause ...