A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

Scientists mapping the bubble our solar system finds itself in made a new discovery, there is an “interstellar tunnel” that ...

An international team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in understanding how and when the Sun formed about 4.6 ...

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This image of the Milky Way galaxy was captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, in collaboration with NASA. This image of the Milky Way, created by NASA ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Princeton University graduate student Jiaxuan Li (李嘉轩) was part of a team seeking dwarf galaxies orbiting the spiral galaxy ...

The binary pair orbits a common center of gravity. The idea behind this binary ... Have astronomers observed any candidate ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...