A Giant ‘Planet Factory’ Beyond Jupiter May Have Churned out the Building Blocks of the Solar System

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

One of our planets may be missing, and it could explain why the solar system looks the way it does

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...
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A 137,000-mph intruder entered the solar system at the wrong angle

The solar system looks flat because Earth, the planets, asteroids, and most local objects all move around the Sun in the same ...

The solar system's largest moon may be heating up — offering clues to its mysterious origins

Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating ...

Scientists may have just found 10,000 planets beyond our solar system

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...