"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

The earliest astronomers were careful observers of patterns.

The Pawnee Star Chart is a series of crosses sprinkled around an oval piece of elk skin. Likely made in the early 17th ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

The spacecraft will study the heliosphere, a vast bubble created by the Sun's solar wind. This bubble acts like a shield, ...