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

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

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

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

And Scientists Have No Explanation For It The vast space beyond our planet’s wall was rightly known as the final frontier, ...

"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope found X-ray signals from young stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These stars are in the “Wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy. The skin ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...

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