The Sun is not nailed to the center of the solar system. It moves, wobbles, and traces a small loop through space, tugged by ...

As you undoubtedly already know, being the scholars and gentlepeople that you are, the moon does not precisely revolve around the earth. Its mass is so big relative to the earth that the two of them ...

If somebody asks you where the center of the solar system is, you would probably say “the sun.” The orrery shows it all. Everything orbits around the sun (which we knew a lot earlier than most think.

This year, we got to know our Solar System a little better. For millennia, humans have believed the Earth or the Sun occupied the center of the Solar System, but the truth is the planets and the Sun ...

All planetary systems have this point, called a barycenter, where their mass is perfectly balanced. For some systems - like Pluto and its moon, Charon - the barycenter is outside the planet. See more ...

The asteroid belt is the ring-shaped disc consisting of irregular small bodies called asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter. I have studied the origins of the asteroid belt in the the solar ...

CLEVELAND — With so much focus on the total solar eclipse right now, I thought some stellar solar system facts would shake up your universe. Let me take you back to grade school and the solar system ...