Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.

NASA has warned of a new cosmic phenomenon that could affect Earth. It is neither the comet 3I/ATLAS, nor the already famous ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth. reading time 2 minutes An astronaut recently captured an image of Earth from the ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

Astrophysicists have discovered five different carbon-based compounds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, marking a first in ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.