Interstellar Visitor May Have Scrambled Our Solar System
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 ...
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An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
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Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS' 'near-death encounter' with the sun may have blown it apart, new photos suggest
New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...
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Space photo of the week: Look into Titan's 'eye,' 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft's historic landing on Saturn's largest moon
Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...
Mysterious Interstellar Object May Have Influenced The Course Of Our Solar System Planets: Study
A new study, currently under review for publication, suggests that an ancient cosmic visitor might have significantly altered the orbits of our solar system's giant planets. Scientists propose that ...
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A new planet in the solar system? Astronomers inch closer to solving a century-old mystery
The cosmos, full of endless wonders and mysteries, keeps throwing us celestial curveballs. In a revelation that could reshape ...
An interstellar object that passed through our Solar System may have altered the paths of these 4 planets forever
A new study suggests that a planet-sized object may have passed through the solar system billions of years ago.
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Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the ...