A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

The newly imaged stars are located within the "Dragon Arc," a spiral galaxy ... within the Milky Way may have evolved. The researchers will now hunt for more stars within the warped light of ...

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered dozens of ancient stars located in the "Dragon Arc ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

New 3D maps of the Milky Way confirm our galaxy is warped It turns out our Milky Way galaxy isn't the flat spiral disk we thought it was before -- dark matter or collisions with other galaxies ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

But our own Solar System's disc is relatively warped, with the orbits of its planets slightly tilted and more oval than circular. What happened to it? It's possible a heavy object fell into the mix ...