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 ...
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 ...
ScienceAlert on MSN5 天
A Giant Object May Have Warped Our Solar System, Study Says
Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...
An ‘alien visitor’ might have warped our solar system, study claims
A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.
An interstellar object that passed through our Solar System may have altered the paths of ...
A new study suggests that a planet-sized object may have passed through the solar system billions of years ago.
BBC1 年
Features of our solar system
The solar system is made up of the Sun (our nearest star) and the objects that orbit around it, including planets, asteroids and comets. Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths ...
Scientific American4 年
Astronomer Mike Brown on the Solar System's Outer Reaches
Analyzing images from a nearby observatory ... aligned—with orbits that are tilted compared to the solar system, and elongated, not circular like the orbits of other planets.
New Scientist on MSN17 天
BepiColombo snaps Mercury's dark craters and volcanic plains
The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of its pockmarked surface ...