"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky ...

And Scientists Have No Explanation For It The vast space beyond our planet’s wall was rightly known as the final frontier, ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

This image shows the center of the Milky Way galaxy in infrared light, as seen by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The image reveals the details of the galactic core, where a supermassive black hole ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.