Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.
The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
The findings, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics ( "The Solar System’s Passage through the Radcliffe Wave during the ...
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 ...
The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...
Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron under high pressures. They used a laser-heated diamond anvil cell to ...
Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.
Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system came from that direction." The increased dust from this galactic encounter could have had several effects.