Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

As mentioned previously, it is around the time of opposition (for an outer planet) or inferior conjunction (for an inner planet) when that planet's diameter appears largest to us. However, for Mercury ...

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal this month, researchers throughout the United States share that ZTF SLRN-2020's planetary companion wasn't simply the victim of a fervid cosmic feast.

and these materials combined together to form the inner planets. The outer four planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) are called gas giants. When the solar system formed, gaseous ...

This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...