Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

What If What If Kepler 22-b Were Part of Our Solar System? Posted: January 10, 2025 | Last updated: January 10, 2025 "What If is an epic exploration of possibilities. What If is a Webby Award ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar ... Using computer models of the four ...

While most models of solar system formation predict perfectly circular and coplanar orbits for the planets, reality presents a slightly different picture. Successful Simulations: Approximately 1% ...

A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

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2D Simulation of Solar System using pure ES 6. Orbits computed with real coefficients (AU scaled to pixels). Main belt asteroids' eccentricities generated with Rayleigh distribution. Welcome to Space ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar ...

It actually follows its own tiny elliptical orbit around what is called the center of gravity (the barycenter) of the system ... Johannes Kepler fitted an ellipse model of Mars' orbit to ...