"That's when we started thinking about the very precisely measured orbits of objects in the ... possibility of collaborating with the solar system simulation group at the Paris Observatory to ...

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

The migration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune from closer to wider orbits around the sun occurred 60-100 million ...

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.

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational ... for example, Mercury orbits once every 88 Earth days, but Neptune orbits once every 165 Earth years For ...

Our solar system used to have nine planets ... Sheppard and Trujillo were the first to notice that the orbits of a handful of known trans-Neptunian objects were all strangely clustered together.

All five planets will be spread out along the ecliptic—the plane of the solar system upon which all planets ... “Given that we understand the orbits of the planets we can predict when these ...

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 ...