Recent studies have revealed that, until now, Hot Jupiters seem to be the only planet in orbit around their host star. This ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

A team of scientists has proposed a groundbreaking theory suggesting that a massive interstellar object—potentially eight times the size of Jupiter—may have dramatically impacted the orbits of ...

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Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their current orbital ...

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The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along a line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always appear somewhere along a ...

The mechanics behind the alignment The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in a nearly flat plane, each moving at different speeds. Mercury, the innermost planet, completes an orbit ...