An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released 25 new images. Since Chandra’s launch on July 23, 1999 it discovers exotic new phenomena and examines old mysteries of our universe.

Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville say they have made a major breakthrough in the study of dark matter in ...

The Milky Way's tidal forces may be shaping the Oort Cloud's inner structure into a spiral shape.

NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after ...

Rare X-ray flash XRT 200515 spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud Scientists suggest a neutron star or magnetar as a possible source Future observations may reveal a new cosmic phenomenon ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

(CNN) - Astronomers say they have spotted a dazzling light show from the Milky Way’s black hole. The astronomers spotted the ...

The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.

Stars form in wide regions in space known as stellar nurseries, where dust and gas come together to give birth to new stars ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery about how young stars form in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy ...

NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization ...