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

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

Study reveals an interstellar object's impact on planetary orbits, reshaping solar system dynamics. Discover how simulations ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

While most models of solar system formation predict perfectly circular and coplanar orbits for the planets, reality presents a slightly different picture. Successful Simulations: Approximately 1% ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

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 ...