The star at the centre of our Solar System could have had a sibling long ... first proposed in 1984 after no such star was found in multiple surveys and studies. But when our Sun first formed ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.

A better method, according to Valeriy Vasilyev, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany who led the study, is to look at stars in the Milky Way that behave ...

a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, told Space.com. "If our sample of sun-like stars is representative of the sun’s behavior, our star is substantially ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble ... cooler interstellar medium," Freyberg explained. A Tunnel to the ...

Gravity provides the force needed to maintain the stable orbit of planets around a star and also of moons and artificial satellites around a planet. The moons around planets in the Solar System ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing the existence of "cosmic tunnels" that connect our solar system to other stars. Using data from the eRosita X-ray ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has caught the first-ever direct image of two planets outside the solar system orbiting an Earth-like star. The trio captured on camera ...

Researchers believe rogue planets, formed by gravitational ejections during early solar system evolution, may outnumber stars and frequently drift through interstellar space. Every million years ...

A new study published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposes that most comets in our Solar System are originally from alien star systems. The research also ...