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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

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

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 ...