“The best match for today's outer solar system that we found with our simulations is a star that was slightly lighter than our Sun – about 0.8 solar masses,” said Amith Govind, co-author of ...

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Billions of years ago, a star may have passed incredibly close to our Solar System, triggering a series of cosmic events that led to the creation of the moons around the outer planets and the unusual ...

While they're not expecting a neighboring star to come cruising through the middle of our system, they looked at the potentially devastating effects of minor shifts in the orbits of the solar ...

A new astronomical study suggests that Earth could one day be ejected from the solar system, not by the aging of the Sun, but by the unpredictable trajectory of a rogue star.While such a scenario ...

Here’s how it works. A passing star may be responsible for more than three-fourths of the moons in our solar system as the stellar traveler flung massive rocky bodies into our cosmic ...

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The Solar System exists in a delicate and ancient balance, with planets orbiting the Sun in predictable ways. But if a rogue star were to cruise through our lonely star system, that serene balance ...

Though there are still some unanswered questions, the scientists suspect that if the clouds of the filament the Sun and Solar System formed in were sufficiently large, our star and planets would ...

even what our solar system may have looked like billions of years ago," Pitts said. None of the planets in perfect synchrony are within the star's so-called habitable zone, which means little if ...