Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan Mitchell Maricopa, Arizona Your excellent question affords us the opportunity to ...

has passed through different regions of the galaxy. One of those regions is the Orion star forming complex, itself a part of ...

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

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

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

Moreover, the model accounts for the gravitational influences acting on the Oort cloud, both from within our solar system and from external sources like other stars and the Milky Way galaxy's center.

A mysterious cloud of space rock and debris in the outer reaches of our solar system might resemble a miniature galaxy, a new study has claimed. The Oort Cloud, named after Dutch astronomer Jan Oort ...

Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...

Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... the edge of our solar system.