"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking image of the Milky Way from the International Space Station, offering a ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the ...