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 ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

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

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

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

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

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

Can mobile solar systems and microgrids just plug in like typical appliances? A number of policy and utility regulations ...

NASA will launch the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

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 ...

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 ...