New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently discovered dim star is likely to have passed through the solar system’s distant ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the Milky Way's thick disk, a population of older, dynamically "hotter" stars, ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.

Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.