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

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 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 ...

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

The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

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 ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests. Until now ...

The vast Oort cloud, sitting at the edge of our solar system, might be more than just ... black holes, and the galaxy’s centre. While these forces have little effect on objects near the Sun ...