Researchers named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout". 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

In our neighborhood of the Milky Way, we see a region surrounding the solar system that is far less dense than average. But ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

LONDON — Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they ... the billions out there in our Milky Way galaxy alone.

Solar Wave Squeezed Jupiter's Magnetic Shield to ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has ...

One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the Universe Oct. 30, 2024 — New research in our Milky Way has revealed ... that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think the closer you are to the sun, the hotter they must be. Now that's ...

The solar system is dominated by the Sun, which accounts for almost 99.9% of the matter of the whole system. It is the source of light and heat to us. Scientists believe that the Sun has been ...