The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

I/ATLAS, the interstellar object discovered in 2025, reveals the estimated population, composition, and distribution of ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a rare solar system in the Milky Way that boasts six planets orbiting in perfect rhythm like a cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since ...

New research has found evidence that Earth's early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our Solar System passed into and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, turning traditional ...

Researchers led by astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered the smallest and dimmest galaxy to date that's orbiting the Andromeda system, the Milky Way's nearest major galactic ...

Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time. When ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Measuring the mass of our galaxy has always been a complex task: We can’t see it in full and most of it is made of dark matter. To weigh the Milky Way, it is necessary to understand how things move ...

Of the myriad of celestial wonders that greet observers of the late summertime Colorado sky, none is more impressive than the faint irregular band of light that we call the Milky Way. Stretching ...

New Lego sets explore 'the art of engineering excellence behind the human space missions to get a glimpse of what's out there.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...