Artist’s depiction of our Sun, along with its hypothesized solar companion. Image: M. Weiss The strange configuration of material in the outer reaches of our solar system has led a team of scientists ...

New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of ...

The sun, the center of the solar system, continues to fascinate researchers, and NASA has sent a probe to "touch" the massive star. A new study, however, suggests it may have a long-lost twin. The ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...

Could our sun have had a partner star during the early days of the solar system? A new study suggests our sun may have had a binary companion, like the system of the planet Tatooine from the original ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope turned to the famed ringed world of Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet in 2023. The Oort clous is thought to have been formed by remnants ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's illustration of the Voyager 1 probe travelling into the Oort Cloud. | Credit: Science ...

Artist's view of a remote icy asteroid with the sun in the distance. Astronomers recently announced the discovery of 2012 VP113, the most distant asteroid ever seen. Credit: NASA/JPL Asteroids have ...

Scholz's Star, a binary star system, passed through the Oort Cloud approximately 70,000 years ago, potentially dislodging some comets but having a relatively minimal overall impact due to its small ...

Artist's conception of a potential solar companion, which theorists believe was developed in the Sun's birth cluster and later lost. M. Weiss The sun, the center of the solar system, continues to ...