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

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

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The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

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Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

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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 ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...