Looking at a solar system diagram on paper, it appears the Pluto and Neptune orbits intersect. Of course, this is not the case. The orbits appear to intersect only because it’s a flat projection ...

This space wallpaper is an orbit diagram for the outer solar system. The sun and terrestrial planets are at the center. The orbits of the four giant planet Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are ...

Pluto's orbit takes 248 Earth years, meaning it won't complete its first year since its discovery until Monday, March 23, 2178. Its orbit, as well as being long, is unusual in its elliptical shape ...

This diagram shows the path of a faint star during the occultation of the dwarf planet Eris in November 2010. ... The Man Who Killed Pluto: Q & A with Astronomer Mike Brown.

Just Passing Through. The Pluto system is tipped on its side, like a target facing the sun. New Horizons did not carry enough fuel to go into orbit around Pluto, so it had only one chance to study ...

Pluto follows a path with an angle 17 degrees above the plane of the solar system’s planets. NASA. This bizarre and distant Earth-like planet, though, isn’t the first hidden world to be proposed.

An illustrated diagram of the sun and the planets of the solar system. (Image credit: SCIEPRO via Getty Images) Researchers discovered the 12 potential massive objects around 60 AU from the sun ...