A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

As civilizations become more and more advanced, their power needs also increase. It's likely that an advanced civilization ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

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

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

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

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...