For years, scientists have warned of heightened risks of extreme storms due to climate change, and those storms have already ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

For years, scientists have imagined the Oort Cloud as a vast, icy shell surrounding our solar system. It marks the boundary between us and deep space, a mysterious region filled with trillions of ...

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

This stunning photo shows every single planet in the solar system at the same time during a rare alignment that won’t happen again until 2040. Taken from a field in Somerset, the groundbreaking ...

scientists used NASA's Pleiades supercomputer to model the structure of the Oort cloud based on the trajectories of comets as well as the gravitational forces within and beyond our solar system.

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The team's research indicates the solar system's passage through the Orion region occurred between approximately 18.2 and 11.5 million years ago, with the most likely time between 14.8 and 12.4 ...