Our solar system is speeding through space much faster than previously thought, challenging the fundamental assumptions that ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the ...

The team, led by astrophysicist Lukas Böhme at Bielefeld University, found that the universe is, in fact, moving more than ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

Astronomers have revealed that the real center of our solar system isn't the sun. Gravity is playing a part in everything. The barycenter is the center.

It's the third of a generous five Saturdays in the month of November. What did we do to deserve such a bounty of days off? In ...

A team using the LOFAR radio telescope network made this claim. They combined LOFAR data with two other sensitive radio ...

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, completing a rotation in less than 10 hours. This rapid spin influences its shape, atmosphere, and extreme weather patterns, including the ...

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The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...

As 3I/ATLAS races through our solar system, NASA and Harvard take unprecedented action to study its bizarre anti-tail and ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...