Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant star, revealing unexpected ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During ...

New research suggests the Oort cloud, a shell of icy objects at the edge of our solar system, may feature spiral arms similar to the Milky Way, revealing a complex cosmic structure beyond Pluto.

The findings, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics ( "The Solar System’s Passage through the Radcliffe Wave during the ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

Fig.1: Artistic representation of the Milky Way. The position of the Solar System is pointed by a white row. Our sun and its ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it ...

As per NASA, Oort Cloud is the most distant region in our solar system (Representational picture). A mysterious cloud of space rock and debris in the outer reaches of our solar system might ...

In the farthest reaches of our solar system, beyond the familiar planets ... that this distant cloud may resemble a miniature galaxy, complete with spiral arms stretching across the void.