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 ...

Folks think I’ve lost my mind when I suggest the best time of year to visit me for stargazing here in the Southern California desert is during late July ...

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

A new Hubble image of NGC 1786 reveals stars of multiple ages in the ancient cluster, challenging previous theories and offering new clues about galaxy evolution ...

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 ...

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

The phenomenon is a key to galaxy formation. When galaxies collide, their central supermassive black holes often merge, forming larger ones, as seen in the Milky Way future collision with Andromeda in ...

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

"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.

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...