Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

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

Even before the recently announced moons, Saturn had more than anyone could reasonably keep track of. Now, astronomers have ...

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

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...