And until 2006 there was one more planet in our solar system, but not anymore ... in Greenwich Park in East London to build his own scale model. This is based on the sun being the size of ...

The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and ... The research is based on mathematical models and computer simulations using observations of six other smaller Kuiper ...

The Sun is about 100 times wider than the Earth and the Earth could fit into the Sun over one million times. It would take 500 years for the fastest person on Earth to run the distance from the ...

However, the model also explains why our solar system apparently stopped forming additional planets after Neptune: the ...

We develop models that describe the atmospheres of the planets. We want to find out what makes a planet favourable to life. Through observations, either with space telescopes or with ground-based ...

Astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun have discovered a new planet in the constellation of the Great ...

Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) recently installed a permanent Voyage Mark II Model Solar System exhibit on campus as ...

According to a new study, if a primordial black hole passed within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could shift the planet's orbit by about a meter -- causing a "wobble." ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the ... one or several major impacts. One recent model suggests Mars got its two faces because ...

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, then at least one may fly through the solar ...

An MIT study suggests that primordial black holes could be dark matter and might cause detectable wobbles in Mars' orbit.