One possibility is that a rogue planet, about 1–2 times Earth’s mass, influenced their paths early in the solar system's ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Avi Loeb's controversial claim that a recent fireball resulted from an interstellar object is taking a hammering.

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

Iceland’s Transition Labs and UK-based Space Solar are developing a solar plant in space that is expected to power 1,500 to 3 ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

It would depend on a lot, say our readers, from how big it was to the route it took - but it could have significant ...

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