This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis. The solar system is structured in a roughly flat plane called the ecliptic, with most planets orbiting the sun in the same ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

Scientists are refining galactic motion models to predict whether the solar system might enter another dense region in the future. While no immediate encounters are expected, future research using ...

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

and proved the heliocentric model (Mars’ retrograde motion). Students could calculate the distances and sizes of the planets in the solar system based on the Sun being the size of a football.

The researchers created a novel 2D multi-physics numerical model to evaluate the system using varying ... lower-density water from the solar panel below it, and this fluid motion pushes water ...