In February, the bright band of the Milky Way appears higher in our pre-dawn sky. Find out where and when to see it.

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 ...

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, ...

A series of high-resolution simulations has revealed a striking new perspective on theMilky Way’s position in the cosmos. Far ...

We refer to our own solar system as the solar system, and in a sense, it is the only one of its kind. For centuries, our sun was known as Sol, latin for sun and the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped distant worlds.

For the first time, researchers have found what seems to be a cloud of dark matter about 60 million times the mass of the sun in our galactic neighbourhood ...

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have uncovered ...

A white dwarf spotted by the Gaia telescope was predicted to smash into our solar system in 29,000 years. But we'll be safe after all. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...