The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.
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 ...
Hello Games announced the latest No Man's Sky update, Worlds Part II, a free download available on all platforms that the ...
When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...
Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...
Now in its ninth year, the overwhelmingly expansive sci-fi survival sim No Man’s Sky is transforming yet again. Another ...
Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...