For every rule in the cosmos, there is a spectacular exception. While most planets orbit in a neat plane, Pluto tumbles at a wild angle and asteroids from a failed world zip between Mars and Jupiter.

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

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For the inner four planets in this solar system, each planet orbits the sun three times for every two orbits of the planet immediately to its outside. For the fourth, fifth and sixth planets, they ...

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A study led by researchers from the European Space Agency has discovered a six-planet solar system about 100 light-years away from Earth. These planets, they say, have a "rhythmic beat" as the planets ...

A team looking at the dynamics of objects in the Kuiper belt, the ring-shaped region of icy bodies well beyond the orbit of ...

For the first time since 2008, two new planets are being added to one of northern Maine's most famous — and scientifically accurate — roadside attractions. Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the ...

Remember those textbook diagrams of the solar system or the foam planets that hung in a tidy row from the ceiling of your grade school classroom? All lies. A sprawling new installation at the ...