The world’s largest digital camera ever made has now been installed and could start photographing the galaxy as early as next ...

A supercluster is usually composed of hundreds or even thousands of clusters of galaxies, and these clusters are ...

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission.View on ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers at Keele University say these ...

Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million ...

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Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

The solar system drifts inside an immense, low-density cavity known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This region, spanning at least 1,000 light-years, radiates X-rays due to its searing million-degree ...

Our Milky Way Galaxy is rich in dark ... more strongly on one side.” Chakrabarti compared this interesting galaxy “wobble” to the way a toddler walks–not entirely balanced yet.