This journey through a dense region of space could have compressed the heliosphere, the protective bubble surrounding our solar system, and increased the influx of interstellar dust, potentially ...

CosmoScout VR is an open-source simulation of our solar system developed at the Institute of Software Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It is primarily aimed at the interactive ...

By analysing them we can figure out how old the solar system is. 'We can unpick the 4.5 billion year journey from the solar nebula, to the protoplanetary disc, to the solar system we see today. 'Earth ...

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.

Figuring out ... our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, may be sending a steady stream of "interstellar material" our way. And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system ...

especially since it subsequently cruised back out of our star system. And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded with visitors from the star system ...

Gravitational tugs, magnetic fields, and interstellar drag pull objects toward our solar system, and only objects larger than 10 microns can survive the journey, according to the study.