Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, ...

New simulation of magnetic turbulence helps scientists study star formation, space weather, and the forces shaping our galaxy ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy ... symbolizing the solar cycle. Nut is often covered in stars ...

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the Milky Way, our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light years, will be visible, according to LiveScience.com. Here’s what to know about the unique solar occurrence ...