This rogue star has been traveling the Universe. And now, it's finally entering our Solar System. But this isn't just any ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close by. Nearly 4.4 million years ago, they swept past at a distance of only ...

Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and ...

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Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two enormous, blazing stars swung close to the solar system. They did not touch the sun, but they came close enough to leave a permanent mark on the thin mist of gas that ...

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

Space might seem like an empty, featureless void, but new research has shown that this is far from true. Scientists have been amazed to discover an 'interstellar tunnel' that connects our solar system ...

The universe is always moving. While we've found evidence of rogue black holes and planets, new research suggests that a passing star could be out there somewhere. Unfortunately, If it were to swing ...

An interstellar object – a comet from a distant star system – is passing through the space between Jupiter and Mars, and according to a recent study, Comet 3I/Atlas may be 3 billion years older than ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...