If our Solar System seems stable, it’s because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

Researchers believe that 2017 OF201’s highly eccentric orbit points to a chaotic origin, possibly caused by a gravitational ...

Our solar system today has eight planets. Till a few years back, Pluto was our ninth planet, until it was demoted to a dwarf planet. But some studies suggest that the ancient solar system once still ...

As ESA inclined the orbit of the Solar Orbiter relative to the orbital plane, the probe could observe the south pole of the ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

Chinese and German scientists have utilized the Transit Timing Variation technique to locate an exoplanet super-Earth for the ...

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

All but one of the planet's known co-orbitals have eccentricities greater ... below 0.38 and simulated how they might behave over a 36,000-year period (three co-orbital cycles). The simulations ...

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...