While the Sun is the centre of our solar system, it only makes up about 99.8 per cent of the mass of the entire solar system. So, the Sun's centre is not exactly located on the barycentre of the ...

But that's not the whole story. "Instead, everything orbits the solar system center of mass," James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency, JAXA, recently explained on Twitter.

Astronomers have sent artificial satellites (satellites that are manmade) to orbit several Solar System objects, including Jupiter, the asteroid Vesta and Mars. Polar orbits take the satellites ...

The problem with this idea is that Mars is a small planet with less gravitational pull than Earth or Venus, which have no ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...