Dive into the world of gravity and space with this C++ simulation of our solar system using OpenGL. In this video, explore ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our Solar System has been well known. It’s responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites but there ...

Because the Sun’s gravity isn’t strong enough to hold onto such hot gas, the outer atmosphere essentially boils off into space. This “solar wind” permeates the solar system.

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

F or the first time, researchers have dated the formation of Jupiter by studying tiny, bead-like spheres found preserved in ...

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be? From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the ...

Just six miles in diameter, our little neighbor is so small that no telescope has been powerful enough to notice it orbiting ...

A study suggests an Earth-sized planet, dubbed Planet Y, may exist beyond Neptune, affecting the orbits of icy objects in the ...