Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they’re the ...

Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Prevailing solar system formation theories indicate that these planets should have at least started out following perfectly circular and share the same orbit. But today, their paths are slightly ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

The interlopers in these near matches dove straight into the solar system, traveling way past Uranus' orbit, with some even grazing Mercury's path. And they were relatively tiny, ranging from two ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post A Mysterious Object Visited Our Solar System And Altered The Orbits Of Four ...