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

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 ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

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Dec. 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 ...

After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...

Researchers have created an improved traffic light system for predicting geomagnetic storms. They are now testing how well ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...