"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

gas and dust in the Milky Way that undulate up and down over millions of years. One of the closest and best-studied of these ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

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

but it also can reveal new details about the objects in our own solar system, and—as evinced here—the stuff at the center of our galaxy. Black holes galaxies Milky Way Sagittarius A Solar flares ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.

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

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

The universe seems to like spirals!" Though insignificant in comparison to the spiral that forms the structure of the Milky ... this way by resisting the journey into the inner solar system.