A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.

"An early solar system containing five giant planets was proposed after numerical models indicated that this is more likely to reproduce the architecture of the current solar system, reproducing ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many more are waiting to be discovered? Faint signatures detected by the ...

Current evidence points to a mix of both processes ... things that look nothing like our own solar system. “Every time we think we really understand planet formation, we learn something new.

"We know from our own solar system that giant planets bring a little ... This still frame is taken at t ≈ 3000 yr (that is, +3000 yr from the current epoch) after ∼100 Myr of integration.

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Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

A solar cell is made of two types of semiconductors, called p-type and n-type silicon. The p-type silicon is produced by adding atoms—such as boron or gallium—that have one less electron in their ...

Long after the planets of the Solar System formed, catastrophic collisions continued, with a climax about 4 billion years ago during an interval called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The scars of ...

It cited common causes for delays, such as failure to secure possessory rights or complete system impact studies, which indicate issues with grid connectivity. Under current solar energy contracts ...

An applied electric field can then sweep these carriers out of the semiconductor, thus producing an electrical current ... solvent system for fabrication of large-area perovskite solar modules ...