The Solar System is not sitting still in a flat diagram; it is racing through the Milky Way in a vast three-dimensional ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

The Gaia space telescope has measured the acceleration of the Solar System when it orbits the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Solar System motion relative to the stars agrees with the results by ...

All of the objects in our solar system are acted upon by forces. Forces are pushes or pulls. Every force has both a strength and a direction. Applying a force on something–like pushing a toy car–can ...

A research team, headed by astrophysicist Lukas Böhme at Bielefeld University, has recently uncovered new insights that contest the conventional standard model of cosmology. The study was published in ...