When it comes to life as we know it, nothing is more important than water, and there's at least one place out there with more than we could ever use.

A recent breakthrough in astronomical research,published in Nature Astronomy, has provided a detailed glimpse into the ...

A study has suggested that this motion of our star through the galaxy potentially takes us through regions of space that ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma ...

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped images of a recently discovered interstellar visitor hurtling through our solar ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond, and in doing so, encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, revealed itself to an international team of scientists when it was observed emitting startling pulses.

Spitzer is currently based 128-million miles from Earth, farther than the distance between our planet and the sun, and is on a path circling the giant star. The discovery was made thanks to ...

While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars comprising our galaxy. "Milky Way ...

In our solar system, the first solid material to condense near Earth around the sun is found trapped within ... that could serve as a model for newborn solar systems across the galaxy.