This barycenter is usually not equal to the central ... For some bodies, like all of the planets of the solar system, the difference between the perihelion and aphelion is quite negligible.

The preprint of their paper, “Relativistic Time Transformations Between the Solar System Barycenter, Earth, and Moon,” recently appeared online and is currently being reviewed for publication in the ...

In keeping with the tradition of naming the solar system’s planets after ancient Roman (as opposed ... rotating around a common center of mass or barycenter. This new hypothesis may help explain a lot ...

For each value of the orbital parameters, the LISA data channels (can be specified, defaulting to A and E) will be resampled from the LISA orbital frame to the solar-system barycenter, a process that ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

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 system's planets onto a different course.

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

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 ...