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 ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...
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 ...
The cosmos, full of endless wonders and mysteries, keeps throwing us celestial curveballs. In a revelation that could reshape ...
Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, have made a final Earth-side pit ...
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 ...
The potential discovery of a large planet beyond Neptune’s orbit could change everything we know about the Solar System.