Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...

How did our cosmic home—the solar system— fashion itself? This is a tale of billions of years. Put another way, begin with a huge whirling cloud of gas and dust. Consider that clouds whirling around ...

The film discusses the formation of the solar system, originating from a vast cloud of gas and dust over 4.5 billion years ago. It highlights the role of comets, which may contain remnants of the ...

Europe’s Rosetta cometary probe has been successfully launched into an orbit around the Sun, which will allow it to reach the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 after three flybys of the Earth ...

A research team led by the University of Arizona has reconstructed in unprecedented detail the history of a dust grain that formed during the birth of the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago.

In 2015, a NASA spacecraft snapped spectacular photographs of Pluto, forever changing humanity’s view of that world. On Tuesday that same probe, New Horizons, will provide a closeup of the farthest ...