A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

Earth could be thrown off its orbit either into another planet or the sun, new research has warned. New research from Durham ...

I enjoyed the new space show at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City this week. Narrated by actor Pedro Pascal, Encounters in the Milky Way takes viewers on a ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

The Oort Cloud is so far away from the Sun. (Representational) Scientists have long assumed the Oort Cloud, one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system, to be spherical.

While curating scenes for “Encounters in the Milky Way,” a team of scientists and animators stumbled across something surprising: a spiral structure hidden within the data modeling the Oort ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun.