New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky surveys, astronomers now think all those places are part of an ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy ... with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

WASP-127b is located in our Milky Way galaxy, around 500 light years from Earth. At just over 20,000 mph, experts say the winds are the fastest of their kind on any known planet. WASP-127b's diameter ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...