Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

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To better understand why the planets have variable compositions ... to the formation of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres ... Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative stages and played a critical role in planetary formation.

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However ... leading to Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet. This decision sparked widespread debate among ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Enaiposha orbits a red dwarf star 47 light years away from our own Earth, upending previous theories of how planets are formed and structured and giving scientists a tempting window into the ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed ... "This range includes planetary masses to brown dwarf masses," Malhotra said.

the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the body ...