The solar system is now at the edge of this cloud, but the massive stockpile of cosmic stardust has left signatures on Earth's southernmost region. Reading time 3 minutes Roughly within the last 20 ...

Earth is quietly collecting fallout from a blast that happened long before humans existed, and a new look at ancient Antarctic ice suggests that material has been riding inside the cloud of gas our ...

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When you think of outer space, you're likely picturing stars, planets and moons. But much of space is filled with clouds of gas, plasma and stardust—known as interstellar clouds. In the local parts of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Path of the solar system through the Local Interstellar Cloud. (CREDIT: Alfred Wegener Institute ...