Our solar system is probably on the mild side compared with what happens elsewhere. You probably need that mildness in order to have a habitable planet.” The Nice model is a hypothesis ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed ... insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system.

Planetary scale model trails are letting cycling enthusiasts pedal their way through the cosmos. These trails are designed ...

Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar ... Union reclassified it as a ‘dwarf planet’, and our Solar System dropped from having nine planets to eight.

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...