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

The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature ’s photo team.

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

If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

I enjoyed the new space show at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City this week.

If our Solar System seems stable, it’s because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

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

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

Scientists have long assumed the Oort Cloud, one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system, to ... "Encounters in the Milky Way," they noticed a strange spiral pattern in the middle of ...

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 ...