Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

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

Explore Earth and its relationships with a plethora of planets, stars and galaxies in its cosmic family, Laniakea, the ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center ... environment encountered by the Sun while sailing through our Galaxy.

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center ... environment encountered by the Sun while sailing through our Galaxy. Fig. 2: The Radcliffe wave. The clouds that comprise this ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.

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

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest ... hole at the galaxy's centre on the Oort cloud's objects, but not on the solar system’s planets ...