Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. By Katherine Kornei If our species manages to hang on ...

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Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Scientists have unearthed an "interstellar tunnel" linking our Solar System to far-off stars, suggesting it could be part of a vast network of cosmic tunnels akin to a gigantic subway system. The ...

This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant ...

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 ...

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there ...

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 ...

The puzzling electric charge on clouds of interstellar gas can be explained by the passage of two hot, bright stars close to the Sun. “Close”, in this case, is something of a relative term even by ...

Scientists find that two hot stars passed near our solar system 4.4 million years ago, altering nearby interstellar clouds.