A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Theorbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune may have been altered by the fly-by of an enormous object from deep ...

Imagine a world with two suns setting below the horizon or another raining glass in furious winds sideways. These are not scenes from some sort of science fiction movie but authentic locations which ...

Launius, Roger D., editor. 2013. Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of Planetary Exploration. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. In Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and ...

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Stars whizzing by our solar system could cause more havoc than astronomers previously thought, from sending Pluto’s orbit haywire to forcing Mercury to fly into the sun – or even catastrophically ...