For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

No spacecraft would be safe in the wake of a solar storm like the 1859 Carrington Event. Europe has just run its most extreme ...

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If there are planets out past the orbit of Pluto at about 40 astronomical units ... So, the researchers ran N-body simulations to see if they could replicate the effect. The simulation of the Solar ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is another possible candidate—planets circling white dwarfs, the hot, dense remnants ...

This video explains why planets in our solar system orbit in nearly the same plane, tracing their origins back to a rotating protoplanetary disc of dust and gas that formed around the young Sun. It ...

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

Science fiction has had a field day with the idea that technologically advanced aliens might build a Dyson Sphere — a star-system-sized megastructure that encloses a whole star — or something similar, ...

In our Solar System, the planetary orbits all have a similar orientation. Their orbital planes vary by a few degrees, but roughly the planets all orbit in the same direction. This invariable plane, as ...