A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

"This planet could play a pivotal role in future missions... to search for biosignatures indicating potential life, " Dr.

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Brown’s thinking is that a planet-sized object in the darkest reaches of the solar system could be tugging on the orbits of the ... right time with the right equipment,’ Dr Bloomer added.

The boundaries of astronomical discovery keep getting pushed, especially in the 21st century with new technologies and equipment being ... be discovered in the solar system to date.

with highly “tilted” orbits compared to the ecliptic plane. This seemed odd and illogical as when the Solar system formed, it would be expected that objects that developed in the circumstellar ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ... system for lunar use, and dust-repelling technology for equipment ...

But our own Solar System's disc is relatively warped, with the orbits of its planets slightly tilted and more oval than circular. What happened to it? It's possible a heavy object fell into the mix ...