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

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

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 solar system drifts inside an immense, low-density cavity known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This region, spanning at ...

João Alves, professor of astrophysics, University of Vienna “As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters ... traced the motion of the RW and compared it with the Solar System ...

“This study is important because it adds a small puzzle piece to the recent history of the Solar System, helping to place it in the context of the Milky Way. We are inhabitants of the Milky Way,” said ...

It is easy to think of our solar neighborhood as a tight ... Some of the comets that swing through the inner Solar System, including long-period comets, can be traced to these distant reaches. Its ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

motions and additional properties for more than a billion stars in our Milky Way and in our nearest galactic neighbours, the Magellanic Clouds. The third data release (DR3) of the Gaia mission ...

The solar system resides on the inner edge of an outer arm of the Milky Way known as the Orion-Cygnus Arm, which is sometimes called the Local Arm, and was previously known as the Orion Spur. Our ...