At first glance, the night sky appears still. But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

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

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

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

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

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

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