Astronomers have discovered our solar system occupies a rare "safety zone" in the Milky Way, perfectly positioned between the deadly radiation of the galactic core and the elemental poverty of the ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, ...

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Greetings everyone! We’ve lost three of the five visible planets to the sun’s glare with only Jupiter remaining in the ...

Objects such as 'Oumuamua, Borisov and recently 3I/ATLAS have opened our eyes to the reality that outsiders regularly visit our solar system — and we're about to start spotting a whole lot more of ...

About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...

Because I’m based in the northern hemisphere, my suggestions of what to look for in the skies can sometimes be skewed towards what we can see from that half of the planet. So, in this month’s column I ...

Look into the night sky, and it might seem like space is a vast expanse of darkness. But are any regions darker than others? What's the darkest place in the solar system and, on a grander scale, the ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May Getty If you’ve ever wanted to see the Milky Way with your own eyes, now’s your chance! There’s something truly astonishing ...