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

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

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

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During its long journey, it has passed through different parts of the galaxy.

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

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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 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 ...