The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...

Or perhaps the universe is a kind of dark forest, with plenty of alien civilizations, but all too scared to show themselves ...

The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also ...

Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS does not come from our corner of the Milky Way, and may be a time capsule of the early galaxy ...

When the Earth travels through one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way, the increased density of matter can cause gravitational perturbations throughout the Solar System. The study compared oxygen ...

Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own solar system. Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way.

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 ...

Study suggests comet 3I/ATLAS may originate from the Milky Way’s thick disk, shedding light on the galaxy’s hidden frontier.

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is ...