As it orbits its star, it moves close enough at one point to experience extreme heat, similar to Venus’s temperature. But at its farthest point, the planet is nearly twice the distance from Earth to ...

Asteroids and comets move in paths which are more oval in shape ... There are many comets in the outer solar system. Comets are icy objects, which orbit the sun at very large distances.

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

Hot Jupiters are massive, gaseous worlds like Jupiter, that orbit closer to their parent ... and give some context for planets in our own solar system.

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

The solar system has eight planets ... The moon travels around the Earth in an oval-shaped orbit, called an ellipse. When a full moon coincides with the point in the moon's orbit that's the ...