Root explores how Earth’s gravity field is constantly changing and what these variations reveal about our planet ...

ALMA observations of the spiral patterns in the disk around the young star IM Lup. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young ...

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The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

For centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other worlds existed beyond those in our own cosmic backyard, and we imagined that if other planetary ...