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

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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made a captivating discovery in the area of planets beyond Earth. A unique planet named 55 ...

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

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

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 ...