Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A renowned physicist believes he's cracked the mystery of where a giant unidentified object hurtling through our solar system came from. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb and student researcher Shokhruz ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." Astronomers have discovered a massive new solar system body located ...

In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star far outside our solar system. Astronomers have discovered the earliest ...

Astronomers have discovered a new world circling the outer edges of our solar system. Researchers using the Subaru Telescope, located in Hawaii, spotted a small, distant object called 2023 KQ14 far ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

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