Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the ... Astronomers predict that our home galaxy and the nearest major galaxy to it, Andromeda (2.5 million ...

And contrary to popular belief, our solar system does not ... motions of stars, he compared the motions of distant stars with ...

the Milky Way. Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer called "Pleiades," scientists have discovered yet another spiral structure on the edge of our solar system. The spiral is composed of ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System ... Milky Way. "We are inhabitants of the Milky Way," says Alves, "The European Space Agency's Gaia Mission has given us the means to trace our ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.

But compared to other stars it is only ... which is called the Milky Way. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our Solar System is about half-way along one of its arms. Our Sun orbits the centre ...

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed ... us the means to trace our recent route in the Milky Way's interstellar sea ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...