Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...

A seemingly regular, Sun-like star began acting really weird, flickering haphazardly as its light faded in and out. The cause of the star’s strange behavior may have been a cosmic catastrophe that’s ...

A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown ...

Milky Way billions of years ago. This remarkable journey, revealed through the most detailed catalog of similar stars to date, transforms our understanding of the solar system’s origins. Published in ...

The Sun has been a powerful source of energy fueling the solar system for billions of years, but our host star may have had rough beginnings. A new study suggests the Sun migrated away from the center ...

Now, astronomers have released the data from the largest-ever sky survey at radio wavelengths, revealing nearly 13.7 million celestial objects in light the human eye literally cannot see unaided.

What does it look like two planets collide? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a pair of resear | Space ...

Astronomers have collected evidence of a violent collision between two planets in a distant star system. The first clues of this cataclysmic event came when a rather boring star began behaving very ...

China's first crewed lunar mission continues to come into focus. A new study proposes intriguing landing sites for the mission.

The Sun, along with more than 1,500 other stars, journeyed from the middle of the Milky Way to its current position a few billion years ago.

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years outward to the peaceful galactic suburbs it currently occupies. Now a pair ...

Their formation has been an object of debate, but new observations confirm the lead hypothesis: they are the product of incredibly bright supernovae. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.