A body orbiting a planet is called a satellite ... There are many asteroids in our solar system which orbit the Sun in oval or egg-shaped elliptical orbits which can take millions of years ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our Solar System, and it gets its name from the leader of the ... and they have very long orbits which means they are found further out in our solar system.” ...

Astronomers have asked the public to help name a minor planet in our Solar System discovered in 2007. The dwarf planet, which orbits the sun beyond Neptune, has since been referred to as (225088 ...

“We predict the existence of an Earth-like planet and several TNOs on peculiar orbits in the outer solar system,” write the authors, Patryk Sofia Lykawka of Kindai University, Japan and ...

In fact, they even went so far to give it a name, Planet 9. Now ... that some of them have highly unusual orbits. While most objects in our solar system orbit the same plane, and in the same ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Its position places it as the third planet in the system. In comparison to our solar system, Kepler-90i orbits 5 times closer to its Sun-like star than Mercury orbits to the Sun. While the ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

But that's not the whole story. "Instead, everything orbits the solar system center of mass," James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency, JAXA, recently explained on Twitter.

Nathan Kaib, co-author of the study and astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute, stated it is plausible for the Solar System to have ... significantly elongated orbits, unlike the near ...