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

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

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

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

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, ...

They are stored in the Oort cloud, a huge, diffuse sphere of cometary nuclei in the far reaches of the solar system. Close to the sun, yet still beyond Neptune, circle what may well be their ...

A young and persuasive salesperson came to Grand Junction resident Brandon Keen’s home last summer selling residential ...

Here's how to spot it and why it happens. The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations ...

There are eight planets in our solar system. The closest one to the sun ... Robotic vehicles called rovers have been sent to Mars to collect information. The Perseverance rover is up there now ...