Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there are.

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our own solar system.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching colossal jets of energy, something once thought possible only in elliptical ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light ... One pointed near our solar system could strip away planetary atmospheres, damage DNA and increase mutation ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...