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New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.
Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.
A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...
Earth could be thrown off its orbit either into another planet or the sun, new research has warned. New research from Durham ...
A field star drifting within 10,000 astronomical units may be enough. This could rattle the Oort Cloud, the icy shell at the ...
A recent study indicates a small chance that Earth could be ejected from our solar system due to passing stars. Simulations ...
This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...
As a result, the Earth is not currently orbiting a point inside the Sun, as the barycenter is outside of it. We are orbiting ...
A recent study warns that passing stars could disrupt Earth's orbit, potentially causing it to collide with other planets or be ejected from the solar system.
Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...
That is because Earth, the other solar system planets, and all other modern spacecraft orbit the sun in a flat disc around it ...