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 ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though ...

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 ...

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

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

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

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

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 ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured an incredibly detailed timelapse of solar activity, revealing a roiling sun sprouting several massive loops of plasma. The Milky Way looks stunning above ...

The first ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... Earth, Sagittarius A* is a gargantuan tear in space-time that is 4.3 million times the mass of our sun.

In the evening, a gigantic bowl with thousands of pinprick holes is inverted over the Earth—or so the thinking ... From our little perch inside the Milky Way, the image shows the universe ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...