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

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

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 ...

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

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

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

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 ...

Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian have found compelling evidence of the nearest ...

Some of these alien visitors could even make their way into the inner solar system. The scientists behind the new finding suggest that the amount of material entering the solar system from Alpha ...

Astronomers uncover the closest supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, rewriting our understanding of ...