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

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

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

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming ... encountered by the Sun while sailing through our Galaxy.

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently ... has spiral arms that make it look like a galaxy. The arms were brought into existence ...

This is the gravitational pull exerted by objects like stars and the monster black hole at the galaxy's centre on the Oort cloud's objects, but not on the solar system’s planets, which are ...

As per NASA, Oort Cloud is the most distant region in our solar system (Representational picture). A mysterious cloud of space rock and debris in the outer reaches of our solar system might ...