A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a ...

Could a rogue star disrupt our peaceful solar system? Scientists are keeping a close eye on the galactic neighborhood, and ...

Its not everyday something runs away from the Milky Way, but NASA was able to captured this object with the help of ...

The Solar System might not be as quiet and orderly as we think. Imagine one day looking up and seeing something strange in ...

Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

Over the last few years, the term “Goldilocks Zone” has become widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

Vera Rubin fundamentally advanced our knowledge of galactic dynamics, laid the groundwork for dark matter research, and ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...