THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

NASA announced on Wednesday, November 29, the discovery of a six-planet solar system in the Milky Way. According to NASA, the planets orbit their central star in a "rhythmic beat," Knewz.com has ...

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru ...

Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years ...

LTT 1445 Ac is roughly the size of Earth and about 22 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The planet orbits the ...

Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of a ...

The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth. Cosmology, Galaxies, Milky Way ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.