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 ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

A new study suggests that a planet-sized object may have passed through the solar system billions of years ago.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...