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

A NASA supercomputer has unveiled a cosmic enigma at the solar system's edge, hinting at a miniature galaxy hidden in the icy ...

Chinese astronomers have analyzed the data from NASA's Swift observatory, which extensively observed an outburst of the ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna, has revealed that the Solar System passed through the ...

What they found was surprising: the inner Oort Cloud seems to form a spiral disk, stretching about 15,000 astronomical units (AU) long. 1 AU is the distance between the Sun and the Earth (149.4 ...

New research suggests the Oort Cloud may have a spiral structure like a mini galaxy. Supercomputer models reveal its ...

Six of the solar system's planets are already able to be seen in the night sky, but the rare seven planet alignment is set for this Friday when Mercury becomes visible. Despite needing a telescope to ...

Astronomers believe they’ve uncovered what could be an “interstellar tunnel” in our cosmic backyard —one that might serve as ...

SPHEREx, PUNCH Missions To Bring Universe, Sun Down To Earth is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation ...

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...