A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the ...

A star's close flyby billions of years ago possibly influenced the solar system's architecture, leading to unusual orbits of ...

The many thousands of small celestial bodies beyond Neptune's orbit may have ended up there due to a star that passed close ...

Instead of rocket fuel, LightSail 2 used photons, demonstrating the viability of solar sailing for future space missions.

Billions of years ago, a star may have passed incredibly close to our Solar System, triggering a series of cosmic events that ...

Since then, New Horizons has been blazing a trail through the Kuiper Belt, which is a ring-shaped region of icy cometary bodies beyond the orbit of ... of the outer solar system to which New ...

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The thrusters on the Crew Dragon spacecraft fired for about eight minutes to push the farthest point of the spacecraft orbit outward ... covers NASA and the solar system, and research closer ...