Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

NASA’s newest space telescope designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way will have to wait a bit ...

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.

Astronomers uncover the closest supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, rewriting our understanding of ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...