Massive object passing through solar system is a better explanation for nature of orbits of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune ...

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019 ...

Comets, often described as the solar system's "dirty snowballs," are icy bodies made of rock, dust and ices. These relics of ...

Despite this, the slightly eccentric and tilted orbits of the Solar System’s gas giants remain an enduring mystery. New ...

An object up to dozens of times the mass of Jupiter flying through our solar system may have disrupted planetary orbits.

The key to this phenomenon lies in the concept of phase space, a mathematical representation that describes the state of a ...

It's possible for our solar system to capture a rogue planet and give it a home as it hurtles through the galaxy, according ...

The evolution of the orbits of the planets is a complex process. Initially the planets formed out of a rotating disk of gas ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

New Solar Composition Ratios That Could Reconcile Longstanding Questions Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets ...

A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...