When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...

A newly released deep-space portrait captures a spiral galaxy whose outer arm appears to curl protectively around a smaller ...

The latest generation of astronomy algorithms is not just cataloguing stars and galaxies, it is learning the hidden rules ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

The Webb Telescope may have witnessed the birth of a supermassive black hole, revealing a faster path for these cosmic giants.

In the bigger picture, “down” could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.