Solar System

Our solar system is adrift in an 'alien' cloud

3 Feb 2012

Washington, Feb 2 : Our solar system is floating through interstellar clouds of gases slower than expected, a new study has revealed.

Matter is different outside solar system

2 Feb 2012

GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- NASA says a spacecraft gathering data on material outside the solar system found matter out there doesn't look like the same stuff our solar system is made of.

Spacecraft probes gas cloud swaddling the solar system

2 Feb 2012

A cloud of interstellar matter envelops the solar system – new observations reveal just how alien it is