The truth about our place in the universe is far more complex than we’ve ever imagined. For centuries, we believed Earth’s position in the cosmos was fixed, but recent discoveries have completely ...

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

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.

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

NASA has shared new details about 3I/ATLAS. It is an interstellar object moving at 209,000 km/h. Hubble images show it is ...

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

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

Revelations are helping to explain the "Radcliffe Wave," a chain of star-forming clouds that the largest coherent structure ever seen in our galaxy — 9,000 light-years from end to end.

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 ...

NGC 6355 is a galactic globular cluster that resides in our Milky Way galaxy’s inner regions. It is less than 50,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.

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A ground-breaking new survey of some 500 ancient stars within our Milky Way provides evidence that our galaxy likely formed in a more solitary environment than previously thought.