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Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...
Solar wind repels 70% of cosmic radiation, but it doesn't protect every side of the solar system equally.
The curious minds at What If investigate the cosmic chaos caused by swapping the orbits of certain planets in our solar system. More for You.
Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by 'Planet Nine'. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 01 / 190121103346.htm.
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 ...
Something very big, out beyond Neptune, is warping the orbits of small, icy objects circling our sun. Astronomers haven't seen it yet, but say the culprit could be a planet with 10 times Earth's mass.
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesized by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained by the combined ...
NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...
Astronomers are racing to explain peculiar orbits of faraway objects at the edge of our solar system. Comments (18) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury, and move in nearly circular orbits around the sun.
That's because, just as our planet orbits the sun in a set direction, the sun orbits the center of the Milky Way, pushing headlong against the interstellar wind that crosses the sun's path.In this ...