Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found the dimmest and smallest satellite galaxy yet—Andromeda XXXV—forcing them ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...

Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

NASA successfully launched two major space missions together on a single rocket!The first is SPHEREx, a space telescope ...