Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment. According to New Scientist: “The great alignment, including ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
In the above animation, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn are shown orbiting the barycentre of our solar system. The barycentre is ...
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...
Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Preps for Record-Breaking Christmas Eve Flyby The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...
Ask a group of people to name the most amazing thing they have seen in the daytime or nighttime sky and you may get answers like: the total solar eclipse of August 2017, Venus’ solar transit ...
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 ...