Here’s how it works. Some distant objects in our solar system bear the gravitational imprint of a small star's close flyby 70,000 years ago, when modern humans were already walking the Earth ...

A red dwarf known as Scholz’s star passed through the edge of our solar system less than a lightyear away from the sun about 70,000 years ago, according to a new paper. In the paper, published ...

marking the closest known flyby of a star to our Solar System. New research suggests Scholz’s Star, as it’s known, left traces of this interstellar encounter by perturbing some comets in the ...