Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...

The search for planets beyond our solar system has taken an exciting leap forward, thanks to advancements in space missions ...

A few decades ago, the Solar System had nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as ...

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

Mars’ strangely small mass still puzzles planetary scientists. Definitive answers as to why are still hard to come by.

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...

But the formation process of multi-planet systems, like our own Solar System, is still poorly understood. The best example object to study multi-planet system formation is a young star known as ...

For billions of years, it's kept our ... solar system. The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Astronomers believe that roughly 100 million years into its existence, the planets ...

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 ...

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Occasional encounters with such rogue planets could have played a significant role in shaping not just our Solar System but planetary systems across the galaxy, as reported by India Today.