New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...

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

Can mobile solar systems and microgrids just plug in like typical appliances? A number of policy and utility regulations ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

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

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

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

TAUNTON – A massive rooftop solar array installation on top of Chamberlain Elementary School is the first city solar project ...

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

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 ...

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