Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

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

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

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

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...

The solar system drifts inside an immense, low-density cavity known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This region, spanning at least 1,000 light-years, radiates X-rays due to its searing million-degree ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system came from that direction." The increased dust from this galactic encounter could have had several effects.

be regarded as having always been members of the solar system, however much their orbits may have changed. They are supposed to be derived from the secondary nuclei of a soiral nebula. The most ...