The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...
While we perceive the Sun as yellow, its actual colour is white. This is because our atmosphere scatters the shorter, blue ...
The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...
The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.
When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...
Related: Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet ... see Starlink as the number one source of collision hazard in Earth's orbit. In addition to that, some scientists worry that the ...
The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.
Researchers examine how the solar system’s movement through the Orion complex could have affected Earth’s climate.