Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Earth may have cooled during a close encounter with dense star clouds. Interstellar dust from the Orion region might have shaped our ancient climate.

NASA's SPHEREx telescope launches to map the entire sky, studying galaxy formation, cosmic expansion, and the origins of life.

Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian have found compelling evidence of the nearest ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Moon Landing In a significant milestone for space exploration, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 made a successful landing on the Moon at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday. Positioned near the volcanic ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting measurable accelerations to Milky Way pulsars. They, in turn ...

If you are away from city lights you’ll see the winter Milky Way stretching from the SSW ... dust grains that circle the sun in the inner solar system. These grains were once thought to be ...

Credit: ESA/Gaia. Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During its long journey, it has passed through different ...