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An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course. When ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

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A comet from another star system, known as 3I/ATLAS, is giving astronomers a rare chance to study an object that began its journey billions of years ago, far beyond our solar system. “This comet in ...