Explore the story of our solar system’s formation, tracing how a vast cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity, collisions, and angular momentum to create a thin, spinning protolanetary disc.
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What lies above and below the solar system?

Beyond the planets’ neat orbits lies a hidden vertical structure of our solar system. From the icy trillions of the Oort Cloud to the protective heliosphere, local interstellar clouds, and the vast ...
The orbits of the planets around the Sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital properties are well understood but the planetary orbits have evolved and changed since ...