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An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

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Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.