Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

I/ATLAS is not unique, in the sense that there could be billions and trillions of such objects in the Milky Way. In fact, ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb reveals why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be an alien 'Trojan Horse' by design rather than a natural ...

The interstellar comet is on its way out of the solar system. Scientists studying it have observed its composition and ...

Radio waves from Earth have been moving through space for more than a century. They did not start as part of any grand plan ...

Radio signals have been travelling through space since 1906, forming Earth’s radio bubble. Now 119 light years wide, it covers about 75 star systems, the signals fading into noise ...

Dark energy is the mysterious force thought to be accelerating the universe. . But a new study hints that scientists may have ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

New observations of the red giant star R Doradus suggest starlight alone cannot drive stellar winds that spread key elements through the galaxy.

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...

In 1974, the project’s Science Working Group recommended that the telescope be required to resolve details at least one-tenth ...