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

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

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

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

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