Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

During the birth of the solar system, the planets are thought to have formed and grown ... In the case of asteroids such as Vesta, their motion is partly dependent upon whether they contain a dense ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all ... Two deep infrared surveys taken 23 years apart measured the object's orbital motion. In 1983, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite surveyed ...

Gravity is the force that governs the structure and motion of the solar system, keeping celestial bodies together in a cosmic dance. The sun, with its immense mass, generates the strongest ...

the point at which molecular motion stops. But this temperature is not constant throughout the solar system. So-called "empty" space — though it is not actually empty — is far colder than ...

Slow-motion seasons unleashing massive ... similar that is to a landscape a billion miles away elsewhere in the solar system, the same processes, the same desert monsoon systems we think are ...

If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers believe it ...

A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars ... In a new analysis, researchers found that the brown dwarfs’ motion was changing — a quirk that’s ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...