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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research finds that two massive, hot stars swept past the Sun about 4.4 million years ago, blasting nearby gas clouds with ...

In a distant corner of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt, icy bodies lurk in the darkness, orbiting our sun at vast distances. These ancient minor planets are called trans-Neptunian objects ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own solar system. Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close by. Nearly 4.4 million years ago, they swept past at a distance of only ...