Key science: Stellar dynamics, N-body simulations, planetary orbital stability, and galactic gravitational potentials.
A newly discovered object orbiting far beyond Neptune has its closest approach to the Sun pointed in the opposite direction from every other known body like it, weakening one of the central ...
Gas-giant planets have been detected on eccentric orbits several hundreds of astronomical units in size around other stars. It has been proposed that even the Sun hosts a wide-orbit planet of 5–10 ...