An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

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 ...

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres ... compounds to the dwarf planet’s surface. In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS ...

Our Sun will become a white dwarf in about 7 billion years. At that point, it will no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion, having exhausted its fuel (hydrogen and helium). Just like the ...

is when several planets in our solar system appear to line up in the sky from our perspective here on Earth." The planet parade occurs when the planets' positions in their elliptical orbit around ...

The Dawn space probe found organic molecules on the dwarf planet around ten years ago ... unaltered remnants from the early days of the solar system. As these asteroids are not traveling too ...

The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system. None of the terrestrial planets have rings, although Earth does have belts of trapped radiation, as discussed below. Among ...

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A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter ...

Jan. 30, 2025 — Flexible perovskite solar cells are promising for lightweight and versatile applications but their sensitivity to humidity and temperature poses a challenge to long-term durability.