The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

At the center is the sun, a yellow dwarf star that contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Everything else — from the eight major planets to dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, and icy objects ...

But that is not the case exactly, the planets and even the Sun are in fact orbiting the centre of mass of the solar system.

The solar system is made up of the Sun (our nearest ... These forces can become very large when the objects have a high mass, like stars, planets or moons. As well as holding planets and asteroids ...

The Hypothesis of Laplace.According to Laplace, the solar system formerly consisted of a very much flattened mass of gas, extending beyond the orbit of Neptune, and rotating like a rigid body.

Investigations are ongoing into what went wrong with the electricity system, which impacted some 60 million people.

The mass electrical blackout across Spain, Portugal and parts of France sparked hours of chaos before power returned – with ...