"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Wylie Overstreet says, "is to build one." So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets' orbits and then filming a ...

Throughout the course, the students collect data and build models of their own, but they also learn about existing scientific ... orbits the sun. But wait! That doesn't mean the solar system ...

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to ...

As for the ultimate stability of planetary orbits within our own inner solar system? In a 2009 paper in the journal Nature, Laskar and co-author Mickael Gastineau ran numerical models of some 2500 ...

The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest ... When combined with a simplified model of the solar system, the gravitational forces of the hypothesised disc can account for the unusual ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our solar system. From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards ... get in our images. This model of the solar system ...

Perturbations from the giant planets cannot do the job either, even if they change their orbits abruptly later in the Solar System's evolution, as modern models predict (see ref. 5, for example).

Aristotle's model ... our last scientific revolution. We've continued gazing deeper into the heavens with greater and greater precision. And today we know that our solar system orbits the center ...

"That's when we started thinking about the very precisely measured orbits of objects in the solar system." In principle ... "Once we develop a complete model that can be used to search through ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Our solar system used to have ... the first to notice that the orbits of a handful of known trans ...