'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...

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When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...

For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...

The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have confirmed. However, the boundaries of celestial definitions are continually ...

Why do all planets in our solar system orbit the Sun the same way? This documentary unravels the cosmic forces, from the solar system’s violent birth to the hidden laws of physics, that keep the ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

Recent astronomical observations have revealed a startling reality: aging stars are far more destructive to their orbiting ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...