A new study in astrophysics has found why some planets’ paths have certain peculiar features. The formation of the solar ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

The moons around planets in the Solar System are natural satellites – they ... but will travel around a fixed path.

A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may ...

The ISS's orbit is slowly decaying. While it might seem a permanent fixture in the sky, the orbiting space laboratory is only ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.

Six planets will seem to line up along their orbits, with four of them bright enough to be visible without a telescope ...

The cosmos, full of endless wonders and mysteries, keeps throwing us celestial curveballs. In a revelation that could reshape ...

A new study, currently under review for publication, suggests that an ancient cosmic visitor might have significantly altered the orbits of our solar system's giant planets. Scientists propose that ...

In the wake of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) in October, comet G3 is due to reach perihelion — its closest to the sun — ...

A new study suggests that a planet-sized object may have passed through the solar system billions of years ... may have shaped the paths of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.