and deform large-scale objects and orbital paths. That said, the inner Oort cloud is affected by these galactic tides as well, albeit over a much longer time frame—like, age-of-the-Solar-System long. ...

The moons around planets in the Solar System are natural satellites – they ... but will travel around a fixed path.

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

Most of the simulations created orbital conditions ... deep into the inner solar system, traveling far beyond Uranus' orbit and sometimes even grazing Mercury's path. Many of these near-match ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path has reduced its possibility of intersecting the Earth to below the ...

Two faraway worlds in the solar system are about to appear rather ... go around the sun in their own orbital paths and appear near each other. Both worlds are set to appear with Venus and the ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter has begun to leave the orbital plane of the solar system and will soon be the first probe ever to look at the poles of the sun. The European Space Agency announced this on ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.