This video explains why planets in our solar system orbit in nearly the same plane, tracing their origins back to a rotating ...

Since Pluto is located so far from the sun, it takes around 248 Earth years for Pluto to orbit the sun. Pluto's orbit around the sun is not only a very long journey, it's also elliptical, resembling a ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

'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 ...

Andrew Winter's team at Queen Mary University of London analyzed fifteen disks around young stars. They used the ALMA array to measure Doppler shifts of carbon monoxide. This technique reveals the ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in elliptical trajectories, and they are all different in size, composition, temperature, and characteristics. The planets can be ...

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

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 as a ...