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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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