Six planets – Venus ... Or might they have a use for increasing our understanding of our Solar System and beyond? In fact, says Millard, "it's just happenstance that they happen to be in ...
Mercury will join them in late February. NASA / JPL-Caltech The eight planets in our solar system all orbit the sun in roughly the same flat plane, known as the ecliptic—but they move at ...
improving our understanding of planet formation and potentially shedding light on the origins of our own solar system," says David Cont from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany ...