But it is even stranger to realize that you are making two simultaneous journeys — around the sun and through the Milky Way. Just like the moon orbits Earth and our planet orbits the sun ...

A star cluster just outside the Milky Way known as Omega Centauri appears to have a black hole at its center according to new ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

dense cloud compressed our sun's protective field between two and three million years ago, leaving the Earth exposed to cosmic material Christian Thorsberg In an event that occurs only once every ...

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Thursday, Oct. 31, with sky charts, ...

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Milky Way galaxy, in which we live, contains more than 100 billion sun-like stars. There are countless such large galaxies in the universe, most of which are thought to have supermassive black ...

What did our ancestors think when they looked up at the night sky? All cultures ascribed special meaning to the Sun and the Moon, but what about the pearly band of light and shadow we call the Milky W ...

Scientists have discovered an extraordinary water reservoir in space, estimated to contain as much water as 100 trillion ...

What is our galaxy, the Milky Way, made of? Well, that is a really good question. I suppose the obvious answer, and it's right in part, is stars - some smaller than the sun and some bigger than ...