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A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that ...
Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...
A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...
NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...
Alpha Centauri isn't the only star system we've identified in this kind of detail, either. In 2023, scientists discovered a six-planet solar system 100 light years away in the constellation Coma ...
Our galaxy is a member of the Local Group — a small collection of galaxies, of which the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are the two largest. About 50 smaller galaxies surround them.
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is being pushed across the universe by a large unseen force, according to new research. Although it may not seem like a friendly gesture, the newly discovered ...
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is being pushed across the universe by a large unseen force, according to new research. Although it may not seem like a friendly gesture, the newly discovered ...
Part 10: What if . . . the solar system had formed closer to the Milky Way's edge?. Our solar system is located about two-thirds of the way out from the galactic center. Further toward the ...
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is being pushed across the universe by a large unseen force, according to new research. Although it may not seem like a friendly gesture, the newly discovered ...