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

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum ... Within the game, you'll find a complete simulation of our Milky Way galaxy — 400 billion star systems, along with every known ...

Comets, by contrast, follow highly eccentric orbits that take them way out into the furthest reaches of the solar system ... both these factors into a model of a comet’s orbit provides a ...

The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky shell of icy objects at the very edge of our solar system - might have ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, GRAVITY Collaboration, EHT Collaboration (Music: Azul Cobalto) ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

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 ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...