The find, announced Wednesday, can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be. This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. A light-year is 5.8 ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a rare solar system in the Milky Way that boasts six planets orbiting in perfect rhythm like a cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces ...

Our solar system exists in one of the Milky Way's smaller spiral arms — the Orion-Cygnus arm — which radiates out from the center of the galaxy.

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Astronomers now think that a collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy could cause the awakening of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, but the solar system could be blasted into interstellar space.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Future earthlings may find this of interest, since the collision might knock our solar system "out of the Milky Way and into intergalactic space," said study lead author Marius Cautun of Durham ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi, ...

Moreover, the model accounts for the gravitational influences acting on the Oort cloud, both from within our solar system and ...

A nearby galaxy will slam into the Milky Way galaxy and send the solar system, where Earth resides, hurtling into space, according to a journal article in the Royal Astronomical Society.

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History last fall ...