Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

Tucked away in the heart of Durham lies a secondhand shopping paradise so vast and varied that bargain hunters from Asheville to the Outer Banks make special pilgrimages just to wander its seemingly ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

Astronomers are uncovering the earliest stages of planet formation with the help of technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Recent findings from the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 ...

A neutrino sensor array, ARCA, lines the Mediterranean seafloor near Sicily. A physicist took ARCA’s first huge win to a warm ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

Scientists at the University of St Andrews discovered ions in solar flares can hit 60 million°C—6.5 times hotter than thought ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...