For centuries, humanity believed that Earth was the center of the universe, a view championed by Aristotle and Ptolemy. But ...

The solar system's journey through the galaxy is more complex than most imagine. While we often picture planets orbiting the ...

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

Researchers at Oxford have discovered that comet 3I/ATLAS may be over 7 billion years old, making it the oldest one we've ...

As we study the universe more, we have found ourselves to be part of much larger structures, formed by gravitational interactions. We orbit the Sun, the Sun is part of the Milky Way, and the Milky Way ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery at the heart of our galaxy—the Milky Way. They’ve found cold clouds of gas floating inside the blazing-hot Fermi bubbles, enormous structures of ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed a star’s survival following a tidal disruption event with a supermassive black ...

Back in 2010, scientists spotted something shocking: a pair of gigantic, glowing lobes of gas bursting from the Milky Way’s ...