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

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

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

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

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.

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

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

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

Fig.1: Artistic representation of the Milky Way. The position of the Solar System is pointed by a white row. Our sun and its ...