But, she argues, such a realistic depiction would confuse the general public. A layperson might have trouble finding those inner planets among the background stars. “So, I would make [the inner planet ...

Just how realistic are those artist ... or are they simply fanciful pictures meant to draw you into reading about ... and features like dunes can be found across the solar system, on planets, ...

Remember that Solar System school project you may have built when you were a kid? Remember how crammed together the planets orbiting the sun were? Well, you couldn’t have made it any other way ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.