nicknamed Scholz’s star after the German astronomer who discovered it, is racing almost directly away from the Solar System. Tracing the trajectory of the star and its brown dwarf companion back ...

Something incredibly strange is happening in our cosmic neighborhood: a mysterious gravitational disturbance is hurtling ...

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“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 ...

By Robin George Andrews Fomalhaut, a star just 25 light-years away ... or ordinary, is our solar system? “It’s hard to draw conclusions about if we’re common or not, if our specific ...

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 ...

According to a new study by a team of Canadian astrophysicists, residents of the Solar System may rest easy. After conducting a series of simulations, they determined that a star will not pass by ...

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 ...

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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 ...