most radical theory of everything "This paper is the first to quantitatively show there was an encounter between the sun and something outside of the solar system that would have affected Earth's ...

How many stars in our galaxy may be accompanied by planets capable of supporting intelligent life? The answer requires reflection on the characteristics and life history of stars ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it ...

but it’s really just a result of the fact that it is harder to see the entirety of something from the inside than it is from the outside. As a result, the borders of our Solar System remain a ...

Groundbreaking research reveals the Oort Cloud's shape as a spiral structure, challenging traditional beliefs about its ...

Tornados, cyclones and hurricanes wreak havoc on Earth, but scientists have now detected planetary winds on an entirely different scale, far outside the solar system. Ever since its discovery in ...

Extrasolar planets contextualise the Solar System among a large number of planetary systems with very different properties. Many extrasolar planets show characteristics which are not realised in the ...

To see the parade, find a dark place with a clear view of the western horizon at nightfall. Mercury and Saturn will be low in ...

Simulations showed that over 10 lakh macroscopic objects, each wider than 100 metres were moving surreptitiously outside our ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...

The telescope used what's known as the transit method to look for exoplanets (worlds outside our solar system), launching a new era of planetary discovery. Kepler watched over 530,000 stars for ...