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

Recent astronomical observations have thrown a curveball at our understanding of the cosmos. The solar system, it seems, is ...

Remember those textbook diagrams of the solar system or the foam planets that hung in a tidy row from the ceiling of your grade school classroom? All lies. A sprawling new installation at the ...

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

Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict," said Böhme, per ...

Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

For many, space travel is unrealistic – spaceships are expensive, and interplanetary exploration doesn’t fit in with a 9-to-5 ...

On August 25th, 2012, humanity became an interstellar species. There was no fanfare or galactic welcome party as a humble robotic probe, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, crossed an invisible threshold. It ...

Study from Bielefeld finds major departure from the standard model. How fast and in what direction is our solar system moving through space? This question, though simple in appearance, plays a central ...