The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the solar system as we knew it at the time. Here's how a German astronomer ...
Now, scientists have uncovered evidence that between 18 and 11 million years ago, the Solar System plunged into the Milky Wave’s largest structure: the Radcliffe Wave. Astronomers reconstructed the ...
New research has indicated that, if Alpha Centauri ejects as much material as the solar system, then as many as one million space rocks larger than 328 feet (100 meters) wide could be lurking in ...
The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system ... what exactly it looks like. Now, however, a paper posted to ...