Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our sun ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

NASA released a trove of never-before-seen images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, unveiling new characteristics of the ...

A mysterious, high-energy glow from gamma-rays in the Milky Way's center is reigniting the debate: dark matter or a hidden ...