New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

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Did the Sun once have a twin star, Nemesis? This lost sibling might have altered Earth’s fate by shaping comet paths, causing ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing the existence of "cosmic tunnels" that connect our solar system to other stars. Using data from the eRosita X-ray ...

A 3D map of the Milky Way’s Local Hot Bubble (LHB) created from eROSITA data reveals a low-density region around the solar system, heated by ancient supernovas. The bubble shows temperature ...