Astronomers reconstructed the Solar System’s movement relative to the Milky Way’s core and found it passed through the Radcliffe wave, a star-forming gas cloud that snakes through our galactic ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time." One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking ...

The solar system drifts inside an immense ... emphasizes how stellar feedback—energy released by dying stars—shapes the interstellar medium. As researchers continue to analyze eROSITA ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...