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

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...

Astronomers have previously discovered large ocean-like waves of stars, gas and dust in the Milky Way that undulate up ... in ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

The solar system's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi ...

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising spiral structure at the edge of our solar system that closely resembles the distinctive shape of our Milky Way. The discovery was made using NASA's Pleiades ...

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 ...

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band ... of the Red Planet out of this world? —Solar system quiz: How well do you know our cosmic ...

The location of the Sun is highlighted by the yellow ... Artistic representation of the Milky Way. The position of the Solar System is pointed by a white row. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt ...

According to NASA, astronomers have discovered what is possibly a "scrawny" star speeding through the Milky Way with a planet ... nearly twice as fast as our solar system.