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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

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 ...