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

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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