The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

Theorbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune may have been altered by the fly-by of an enormous object from deep space, billions of years ago. According to a pre-print research paper, which is yet ...

Gravity not only maintains the stability of these orbits but also influences phenomena like tides on Earth, caused by the moon's gravitational pull. The paper, authored by David Jewitt from the ...