New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

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

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

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

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

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...

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

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

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

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

SolarAPP+, OpenSolar reports that the likelihood of projects passing inspection increases nearly 30% over traditionally ...

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 ...