The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Earth may have cooled during a close encounter with dense star clouds. Interstellar dust from the Orion region might have ...

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 ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan Mitchell Maricopa, Arizona Your excellent question affords us the opportunity to ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy ... in the center of our galaxy expand to our solar system?] In the new study, the team used JWST ...

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.

However, our own Milky Way is on a path to collide with its giant neighbor ... Simulations estimate that there is a 50% chance that our solar system would be displaced to a more distant region of the ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.