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.

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?

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 ...

In the paper, the researchers describe how they modeled the orbits of the four outer planets and performed 50,000 simulations of a large object passing through the solar system to determine if ...

The paper, authored by David Jewitt from the University of California and published in The Planetary Science Journal, explores other forces that shape our solar system. Gravity certainly describes ...

Simpson's paper, "How might a planet between ... They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar system's orbital architecture may have evolved differently with the formation of a planet ...