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. When ...
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...
When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...
A breathtaking photograph taken in the UK could be the first to depict all the planets in our solar system at the one time. The milestone image was captured in Somerset by a UK photographer during an ...
Theorbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune may have been altered by the fly-by of an enormous object from deep space, billions of years ago. According to a pre-print research paper, which is yet ...
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — If you needed a sign from the cosmos, the planets are in fact aligning for you this evening. ValleyCentral spoke to Christian Hernandez, Program Specialist at UTRGV ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Planetary scientists are split, oscillating between two main theories that explain the order in ...