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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...