"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

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

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

“We are inhabitants of the Milky Way.” João Alves, professor of astrophysics ... “Notably, our estimated time interval for ...

We are surrounded by it: an odd spiral was seen close to the Milky Way. NASA Supercomputer Unveils Spiral Surprise at Solar ...

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

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

NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – ​​a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy ...

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

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

It's located far beyond the Kuiper ... both from within our solar system and from external sources like other stars and the Milky Way galaxy's center. The inner part of the system, between 1,000 ...