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 ...

The outer solar system is a fascinating region that includes ... effectively ruled out a substantial portion of the parameter space where it could exist, suggesting that if it does exist, it ...

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

19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to ...

In the paper, the researchers describe how they modeled the orbits of the four outer planets and performed 50,000 simulations of a large object passing through the solar system to determine if ...

Scientists at NASA have found patterns which could help predict solar flares, the most common form of solar disturbances aka ...