ClockworkThe old models called orreries depicted an ever predictable solar system. The real one is more random: Moving a pencil across your desk today, says one astronomer, can shift Jupiter ...

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Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, serving as the final boundary between us and the dark reaches of ...

T he James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system ...

"It's a different way of experiencing the mechanics of the solar system for yourself," said Catherine Muller, an astronomer at Royal Observatory to Sky News science correspondent Thomas Moore.

DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism. In a potential ...