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

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...

Derived from the Greek words peri (around) and helios (sun), the word ... the eccentricity of the orbit and determine its perihelion as well." All solar system planets have fairly circular orbits ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many ...

is when several planets in our solar system appear to line up in the sky from our perspective here on Earth," John Conafay, ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will appear together in a row throughout the start of February – although ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...