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 ...
Scientists Think An Ancient Interloper Once Disrupted Our Entire Solar System
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 ...
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A Giant Object May Have Warped Our Solar System, Study Says
Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...
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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 ...
Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...
Alien Cosmic Visitor Might Have Completely Rearranged Our Solar System, Study Finds
The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...
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Is Earth the only planet in the solar system with plate tectonics?
Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...
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Solar System News
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 ...