The planets of our solar system orbit in a thin, orderly plane, but beyond this familiar disc lies a vast and complex cosmic environment that reshapes how we understand space itself. From the ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

If you travel far enough away from the Sun, the Solar System becomes a lot more populated. Out past the orbit of Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast, ring-shaped field of icy rocks. This is where ...

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, serving as the final boundary between us and the dark reaches of interstellar ...

Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar system’s primordial past. This discovery involves a dense concentration of ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...