Currently, scientists’ knowledge of its shape is based on what is known about other galaxies and models of our own solar system – but it is not the whole picture ... they could develop a ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most ... just what the heck is going on with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into the atmospheres ...

It looks at how streams of interstellar bodies might escape a solar system and how they would then move through the Milky Way. While it is always possible for a random asteroid or comet to have a ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most ... But just existing in a system with three super-puff exoplanets is an oddity. More work will need to be done to figure out ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing the existence of "cosmic tunnels" that connect our solar system to other stars. Using data from the eRosita X-ray ...

Astronomers have made a startling discovery of cosmic channels that connect our solar system to far-off stars, reshaping our ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

3D map of the Milky Way’s Local Hot Bubble (LHB) created from eROSITA data reveals a low-density region around the solar system, heated by ancient supernovas. The bubble shows temperature gradients ...

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have ...

There’s more than one way for a star to die. Some go with a whimper, and some go with a very, very big bang ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its ...