Interstellar Visitor May Have Scrambled Our Solar System
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 ...
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A Giant Object May Have Warped Our Solar System, Study Reveals
New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, leaving a lasting imprint on the orbits of our planets. This intriguing ...
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Scientists Think An Ancient Interloper Once Disrupted Our Entire Solar System
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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An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests
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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An interstellar visitor helped shape the orbits of the planets
Their current orbital properties are well understood but the planetary orbits have evolved and changed since the formation of the solar system. Planetary migrations have been the most prominent ...
There's more than just gravity at work in the solar system
Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...