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"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

But this framework drew immediate criticism. "That definition is clearly inadequate, because it excludes exoplanets," or ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

It would depend on a lot, say our readers, from how big it was to the route it took - but it could have significant ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in ... new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed,” said Lykawka.

Some are in tightly bunched orbits, much closer together than the planets in our solar system. Some are Jupiter- or Neptune-size worlds that race on insanely hot orbits close to their suns.

Because they're surrounded by foul-smelling gases that are incompatible with the human sense of smell, living on the surface ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, this gigantic cloud was transformed into our Sun. The processes that followed gave rise to the solar system, complete with eight planets, 181 moons, and countless ...