THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been a source ... the actual variation of the viscosity with the time. Scientific Papers, vol. ii. The question that next arises ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

astronomer Mike Brown discusses the next horizons in our solar system, including the hunt for the elusive Planet 9. This article was produced for Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media ...

This event holds cultural, historical, and scientific ... forces. ・Solar system dynamics: By observing the motion of planets during an alignment, scientists refine models of orbital mechanics ...

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

This method transforms the Sun into a true astrophysical laboratory, providing crucial data for refining stellar models and better understanding ... the only stable nuclear fusion reactor in our solar ...

Traditional models predict that Jupiter ... first confirmed interstellar visitor to the Solar System and has generated great interest in the scientific community, as reported by Universe Today.

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar ...