A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.

First images from new observatory bring night sky to life ‘like never before’ - The images reveal millions of twinkling stars ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History last fall ...

This artist’s conception shows the view from Earth some 3.75 billion years from now, as Andromeda (at left) appears much larger in our sky, while the plane of the Milky Way (at right) has ...

3D structure of the Milky Way's local bubble created using data from eROSITA. (Image credit: Michael Yeung/MPE) This revealed that the LHB is stretched toward the poles of the galactic hemisphere.

A diagram of the 3D structure of the Milky Way's local bubble created using data from eROSITA. This revealed that the LHB is stretched toward the poles of the galactic hemisphere.

Our solar system is located 26,000 light-years from the middle of our galaxy—“in the suburbs,” as NASA says—and it takes about 250 million years for it to make one orbit.

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. Skip to content ...