Scientists have been trying to find a hypothetical Planet 9 that may exist outside our known solar system based on the unusual orbits of certain dwarf planets. But those orbits might not require a ...

A team of researchers has found a simpler and less mysterious answer as to why bodies in the distant solar system have strange orbits. One of the biggest mysteries of out stellar neighbourhood has ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that a close encounter with a massive interstellar object, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, may have significantly altered the orbits of the four outer planets in our ...

If you need to remember your tiny place in the space-time continuum, it’s time to listen to SolarBeat, a flash animation that converts the orbital frequencies of our solar system into notes. Artist ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Billions of years ago, a star may have passed incredibly close to our Solar System, triggering a series of cosmic events that led to the creation of the moons around the outer planets and the unusual ...

The discovery of a tiny planet dubbed ‘The Goblin’ on the fringes of the solar system could indicate the presence of the fabled Planet Nine. With Halloween less than a month away, the world of ...

Theorbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune may have been altered by the fly-by of an enormous object from deep space, billions of years ago. According to a pre-print research paper, which is yet ...