When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Computer simulations of the gravitational interactions of solar system bodies suggest that a hypothetical Earth-like planet explains all of those anomalies. It would need to be around 1.5–3 ...

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A close encounter with a mysterious interstellar object could explain the current orbits of several of Earth’s largest ...

“The method propagates energy through a hypothetical solar farm system configuration very quickly,” Zohdi told pv magazine. “It assesses how well the hypothetical solar farm system performs ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using ...

if the age of the Solar System were a year, humans would appear on Earth just before the countdown on New Year’s Eve. This is an illustration of Tythe, a hypothetical planet three times as big ...

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

While hypothetical, these observations can help ... stifling the possibility of life around it. "If we discover a solar system-like system, but with a slightly different history—where instead ...