Those "arms" resemble the elongated structures of a spiral galaxy, like our very own Milky Way. At an epic timescale "comparable to the age of the solar system," which is 4.6 billion years old ...

The Oort cloud is thought to be a remnant of the solar system’s formation, a shell of icy debris left over from the chaotic ...

At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort cloud, which appears to sport two spiral arms reminiscent of a disk-shaped galaxy. New research founded upon a ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our Solar System is about half-way along one of its arms. Our Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way at about 140 miles every second. It takes about 230 ...

The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye.

PV Hardware (PVH) has released PVH Terra, a foundation system designed to improve solar plant installation on challenging terrain. The system aims to improve stability in expansive soils ...

Chinese scientists, in collaboration with several international research institutions, have led the construction of a high-precision surface solar radiation monitoring system on a near-global scale.