NASA's JWST has uncovered solid water ice in a distant star system, reshaping our understanding of life's building blocks and ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

We see at most 3% of the universe,” said Pamela Gay of the Planetary Science Institute, citing a mind-boggling constraint ...

Even within our own solar system, distances are enormous. NASA astrophysicist Dr. Amber Straughn explains that driving a car ...

Astronomers have just discovered a new celestial body in our solar system that could challenge major space theory. 2017 OF201 ...

More than 150 moons orbit worlds in our solar system. Known as natural ... must exist in the Milky Way galaxy alone. So does Earth have a twin somewhere in the universe? With ever-advancing ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy ... on the edge of our solar system. The spiral is composed ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which ... and dust that orbit the central core. The solar system orbits within the Milky Way's disk.

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.