It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...

While the Sun is the centre of our solar system, it only makes up about 99.8 per cent of the mass of the entire solar system. So, the Sun's centre is not exactly located on the barycentre of the ...

Our solar system orbits the Milky Way galaxy once about every 225 million years, whipping along at 230 kilometers per second (a staggering rate that we don’t feel because the whole thing moves ...

This means that objects in small orbits travel faster than objects in large orbits. The graph shows how the orbital speed of a planet changes with its distance from the Sun. Polar orbits take the ...

Astronomers have sent artificial satellites (satellites that are manmade) to orbit several Solar System objects, including Jupiter, the asteroid Vesta and Mars. Polar orbits take the satellites ...

Even today, we can't predict the return of most comets until after they swing through the inner solar system. If such a comet ... but their orbits don't cross Earth's orbit, so there is no risk ...

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.