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

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the ...

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 ...

A colossal wave is rolling through the Milky Way’s stars, mapped by ESA’s Gaia telescope and reshaping our understanding of ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...