"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy ...

Our solar system exists in one of the Milky Way's smaller spiral arms — the Orion-Cygnus arm — which radiates out from the center of the galaxy. While we can use our vantage point to view ...

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.

Feeding data on these comets along with other observations into an advanced model on ... our very own Milky Way. At an epic timescale "comparable to the age of the solar system," which is 4.6 ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, appears to be ionized (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons) at a ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth. Human Spaceflight, Milky Way ...