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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...