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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV—located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the ...

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

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