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

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

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

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

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

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.

Maryland farmers who invested in solar projects, committing thousands of their own money, were promised matching federal ...

Our grade school understanding of the Solar System may not take into account the constant discoveries being made in our ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, ...