This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Christopher Nolan’s iconic film titled Interstellar was released in the year 2014 and is an extremely visual and exquisite sci-fi masterpiece that highlights humanity’s hunt for finding a new home in ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

An interstellar visitor To tackle this puzzle, Malhotra and colleagues considered a less-examined scenario: that a visiting star-size object tweaked these planets' paths around 4 billion years ago.

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...