Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

Billions of years from now, the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and Earth. But that’s not the ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

However, our own Solar System doesn’t follow this idealized model. Instead ... object’s path may have disturbed the orbits of the giant planets, setting them on their current, somewhat ...

Just for fun, here's a Python model showing part of the solar ... A Rotating Cloud of Dust What if we want to create a solar system from a giant cloud of dust that is slightly rotating?

Evidence from the fragments of a destroyed asteroid suggests that the shift in the positions of the giant ... solar system moved into their current locations, known for 20 years as the Nice model.

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...