Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

A recent study in Icarus suggests a wandering star could disrupt our solar system. Simulations reveal that a star passing ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

A recent study indicates a small chance that Earth could be ejected from our solar system due to passing stars. Simulations ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.

If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

Johan Rockström is a professor of Earth system science and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research at the University of Potsdam, ... T. B. et al. Science 383, 976–982 (2024).

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time.