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

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

Study reveals an interstellar object's impact on planetary orbits, reshaping solar system dynamics. Discover how simulations ...

There are two types of terrestrial planets - solar terrestrial planets and extra-solar terrestrial planets. Solar terrestrial planets refer to the first four planets in the solar system, i.e, Mercury, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a planet so extraordinary it has defied all existing ...

Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, ...

A close encounter with a mysterious interstellar object could explain the current orbits of several of Earth’s largest ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point in its ... Meteorite Contains ...

ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission recently completed its last flyby of Mercury, revealing stunning details about the ...