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

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

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 ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...