An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.
When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...
The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...
Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...