Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

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The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, serving as the final boundary between us and the dark reaches of interstellar ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun’s flow of high-speed solar wind, detailed in new research ...