Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

The sun, suspended ... 2009 image looks the other way, capturing the very center of the Milky Way. It was no easy feat capturing this view, which stitches together images from NASA’s Hubble ...

Friday, August 30, 2024: What looks like two suns shining on Mars is actually just one regular sun with a strange light ... shines along a stretch of the Milky Way galaxy. This photo, shot from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

It’s the ultimate game of find a needle in the haystack. One NASA scientist is betting on AI to help expedite the search ...

This swirl of stars may be similar to our own Milky Way galaxy ... or two self-orbiting asteroids. Webb captured the moment of impact, as did the Hubble Telescope. Webb's images show a tight ...

Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly ... Map Ever of Our Milky Way Sep. 26, 2024 — Astronomers ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history ... studied a curious population of 20 stars currently orbiting in the vicinity of the Sun. Unlike the Sun, however, these stars have almost no ...

Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen ...

Physicists at MIT and Caltech have discovered the first “black hole triple,” a formation more than 8,000 light years from ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

The EHT followed up with an image of Sagittarius A*, a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy ... about 4 million times the mass of our sun, images will need to be taken every five ...