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

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

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

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

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

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

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would ...

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

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

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

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 ...