A rare interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is drawing attention as it approaches Earth, growing brighter and taking on a ...

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A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently discovered dim star is likely to have passed through the solar system’s distant ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The solar system of the far future is safe from a run-in with a runaway dead star. Last year, ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...

Scientists have revised the timeline for the approach of the rogue star Gliese 710, which is now expected to enter the solar system sooner than previously thought. This accelerated timeline has raised ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.