Brown and Batygin were not part of the Planet Nine research team, but both men previously suggested a “Planet X” existed in the far reaches of the solar system. “It’s kind of fun that a ...

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral ...

The team's research indicates the Solar System's passage through the Orion region occurred between approximately 18.2 and 11.5 million years ago, with the most likely time between 14.8 and 12.4 ...

HELSINKI — Researchers are examining how artificial intelligence technologies could support a planned Chinese mission to the boundaries of the solar system ... to sense and model unknown ...

When Copernicus was born, the scientific consensus was that the Earth was at the center of the solar system and the sun and planets revolved around it. Geocentric model of the solar system which ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects. Nature Astronomy , 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02433-2 Cite This Page : ...

By analogy to the Copernican model of the solar system, he quickly deduced that they were moons ... they proved to be the earliest observational nail in the coffin for Ptolemy’s geocentric model of ...

The work joins other studies that have proposed interstellar flybys to explain eccentricities in the orbits of certain objects in the solar system. The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion ...