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

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

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

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

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

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

Researchers claim that there could be at least 1 million interstellar objects hiding in the Oort Cloud at the edge of our ...

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

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 ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

Maryland farmers who invested in solar projects, committing thousands of their own money, were promised matching federal ...

Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the ...