The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...

The moons around planets in the Solar System are natural satellites – they ... but will travel around a fixed path.

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

This strange object near the solar system's edge may be a rare example of the 3-body problem in our own cosmic neighborhood.

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path has reduced its possibility of intersecting the Earth to below the ...

Two faraway worlds in the solar system are about to appear rather ... go around the sun in their own orbital paths and appear near each other. Both worlds are set to appear with Venus and the ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter has begun to leave the orbital plane of the solar system and will soon be the first probe ever to look at the poles of the sun. The European Space Agency announced this on ...