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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Our grade school understanding of the Solar System may not take into account the constant discoveries being made in our ...

A major representative of electricians in South Africa has slammed Eskom and certain municipalities for requiring ...