Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to gas giant Jupiter, a team of astronomers has concluded it may be ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique ...

A new study suggests the Sun moved outward with many similar stars during a large Milky Way migration event long ago.

The Sun has been a powerful source of energy fueling the solar system for billions of years, but our host star may have had ...

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

The Sun, along with more than 1,500 other stars, journeyed from the middle of the Milky Way to its current position a few billion years ago.

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, and star cluster in Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Photographer Alan Dyer ...

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...