“It’s completely plausible for our solar system to have captured such an Oort cloud planet,” says Nathan Kaib, a co-author on the new work and an astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute.

The location of the solar system's outer boundary is a point of contention among astronomers. There are three possible candidates, which "all have merit." But which one is best?

The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...

Our understanding of the solar system is a work in progress. Pluto’s demotion to a dwarf planet was just one of many revisions—in recent decades astronomers have cataloged new dwarfs, like far ...

Twenty years after its discovery, asteroid and quasi-moon 2002 VE 68 has been officially renamed "Zoozve" after a strange label on his 2-year-old child's poster of the Solar System led Radiolab ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic mystery. Astronomers have cataloged a frozen minor planet called 2017 ...

Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.

Every planet in the solar system is affected by multiple forces. The gravity of the Sun pulls planets toward the center of the solar system. The inertia from the creation of the planets sent them ...

Launched on September 5th, 1977, the spacecraft reached Neptune, the outer sentinel of the Solar System, over a decade later. An artist's impression of the Voyager 1 space probe flying past Saturn ...

The Sun accounts for some 99.86% of the mass in our Solar System; of the remaining fraction of a percent, fully two-thirds is embodied in Jupiter, which itself contains more than 70% of the total ...

A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. The exoplanet, which is about 120 light years away, appears to take an unusual path ...

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