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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

While not a detection of life itself, this study shows that the Solar System may have been far more conducive to life in its distant past then we previously believed. Some 4.5 billion years ago ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

The temporary belts, one of which still remains, were filled with high-energy electrons and protons and were found by a ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...