A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

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

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

An interstellar visitor may have warped the solar system billions of years ago, a new study has claimed. Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn ...

This project is a real-time, interactive solar system simulation built using C# and WPF (Windows ... while maintaining basic physical principles like gravity and orbital mechanics. Realistic Orbital ...

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

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade ... It isn’t a perfect line of planets, because their orbits are tilted slightly, but it is fairly close. The multiverse could be ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

All solar system planets have fairly circular orbits with relatively minuscule differences in their distance from the sun at aphelion and perihelion. Venus and Neptune follow the most circular orbits.