Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

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

has passed through different regions of the galaxy. One of those regions is the Orion star forming complex, itself a part of the Radcliffe Wave. Credit: ESA/Gaia. Our Solar System is in motion and ...

NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – ​​a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud’s ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The universe seems to like spirals!" ...

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

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

Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying ... encountered by the Sun while sailing through our Galaxy.