Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered the orbits of the four outer planets-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. It could ...
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 ...
Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...