Scientists think a huge object shot its way through space and forced Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune’s orbits to be thrown off course billions of years ago.

January 23, 2025: The Solar System may have been warped by a mysterious object billions of years ago.

A Disrupted Solar System

Scientists think a huge object shot its way through space and forced Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune’s orbits to be thrown off course.

50,000 Simulations Uncover the Mystery

It comes as a team of researchers carried out computer simulations for 50,000 scenarios, each portraying 20 million years.

Results included an object eight times the size of Jupiter coming within 1.69 astronomical units of the sun as well as a big star entering the solar system.

Despite this, the findings need to be reviewed by other scientists for the theory to be validated.

Planetary scientist Renu Malhotra described the challenge as understanding how planetary orbits became slightly tilted and out-of-round.

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Sources:  Live Science

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