The solar system can be replenished by a new wandering planet — Science and IT

Scientists have investigated the possibility of the Sun capturing stray planets from other star systems.

Despite the fact that currently the only objects from interstellar space that have visited the Solar System are the asteroid Oumuamua and the comet 2I/Borisov, scientists do not rule out the possibility that the Solar System could host a new planet in the future.

This was reported by ScienceAlert.

This can happen thanks to the Sun's gravity, which is able to capture wandering planets. What will happen to the other planets is currently unclear, as everything depends on the mass of the object and its final orbit. Perhaps the appearance of a new planet will lead to orbital chaos, which will radically change life on Earth.

Phase space is a mathematical description of the state of a dynamic system, in particular, the solar system, which includes all possible orbital configurations. This space contains capture points,…