When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational ... for example, Mercury orbits once every 88 Earth days, but Neptune orbits once every 165 Earth years For ...

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 ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...