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

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

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

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

The solar system drifts inside an immense, low-density cavity known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This region, spanning at ...

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

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes ... trace our recent route in the Milky Way’s interstellar sea, allowing astronomers to compare notes with geologists and ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

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

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.

A spiral structure composed of billions of comets in the inner solar system at its ... insignificant in comparison to the spiral that forms the structure of the Milky Way, Dones and colleagues ...