Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though ...

This central positioning of the Sun within the LHB is purely coincidental. As the solar system moves through the Milky Way, ...

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.

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 so-called “solar system 2.0” just 41 light-years distant in the Milky Way. They found no evidence from within the star system, which is known to have seven planets orbiting a red dwarf star.

Space is teeming with objects that, from the right perspective, might resemble things we're familiar with. This visual ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Thursday, Oct. 31, with sky charts, ...