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

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During ...

NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – ​​a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy ...

Moreover, the model accounts for the gravitational influences acting on the Oort cloud, both from within our solar system and from external sources like other stars and the Milky Way galaxy's center.

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

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

As for the solar system itself, stellar models assure us ... eradicated all life about 2.8 billion years before the first Milky Way/Andromeda close encounter. However, if this were not true ...

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 ...

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

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