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

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

The most recent nearby supernova, SN 1987A, was in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Milky Way’s youngest known supernova is called G1.9+0.3.

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 ...

In fact, Scots should get ready to witness "our home galaxy in all of its glory" as the Milky Way comes into view this month. Excitingly, NASA has revealed exactly how and when best to catch a ...

Scientists have solved one of the solar system's enduring mysteries with the help of an unexpected source: a planetarium show. Last year, experts at the American Museum of Natural History were ...

Southern astronomers get to see the Milky Way’s core overhead and enjoy many star clusters and nebulae that are hidden for us ...

Named for the pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation helped prove the existence of dark matter, the ...

If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system.

A brand-new, cutting-edge telescope called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to release its first images to the world, ...

Even a speck of dust could alter the image quality. The high reflectivity and speed of this allow the telescope to capture a ...

"Our solar system lies within the disk of the Milky Way, so we are looking at it edge on... Our nearest large neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, appears as a faint, fuzzy patch of light in Northern ...