Gravity is what keeps the moon orbiting around the Earth, and the planets (and other objects like comets and asteroids) in our solar system orbiting around the sun. Some orbits can be nearly circular ...

The orbits of the planets around the ... to 50 times the mass of Jupiter passing through the solar system was a more likely ...

In the paper, the researchers describe how they modeled the orbits of the four outer planets and performed 50,000 simulations of a large object passing through the solar system to determine if ...

Since the formation of the Solar System, the orbits of ... And now, a new paper has theorised that this could be behind the changes in the orbits. Led by Garett Brown University of Toronto ...

In particular, there is the long-standing question of whether or not the planets' orbits ... (LAB). The paper that describes their findings, "The influence of passing field stars on the solar ...

the planetary formation 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices may help unravel some mysteries of our solar system. The new planets, revealed in a paper published Wednesday in ...

Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System. The ring system orbits much further out than is typical for other ring ... so hopefully this new ...

A six-planet solar ... the system is largely unchanged since formation more than a billion years ago In fact, in 99% of cases, the planets are redistributed in “somewhat random” orbits ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system ... tiny moon Amalthea as it orbits the planet. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt The paper, published in the journal ...

For years, some astronomers have been suggesting that unusual behaviour on the edge of our solar system is best explained by another, undiscovered planet. That helps explain the orbits of objects ...