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 least 1,000 light-years, radiates X-rays due to its searing million-degree ...

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 ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly capture images of the planets in the star system HR 8799, which ...

“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 ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

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 ...

11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

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 ...