Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.

Our grade school understanding of the Solar System may not take into account the constant discoveries being made in our ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago. Now, University of Vienna doctoral student Efrem Maconi thinks that our ...

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

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

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