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Imagine setting off on a spacecraft that can travel at the speed of light . You won’t get far. Even making it to the other side of the Milky...

Astronomers have observed a rare instance of a solar system inside the Milky Way whose planets orbit in sync around their host star, accord...

It turns out those stretched-out hyperspace lines from Star Wars are real. Sort of. According to EurekAlert! , a team of astrophysicists has...

Could intelligent aliens be lurking at the heart of the Milky Way? A new search for extraterrestrial life aims to find out by listening for...

A composite image showing the 58 galaxies clustered together in the "zone of avoidance" behind the Milky Way. (Image credit: Galde...

Photographer Andrew McCarthy recreated NASA’s famous “Pillars of Creation” photograph of the Eagle Nebula using a $500 telescope. The origin...

In the summer of 2020, the world was enthralled with the Comet Neowise , which only makes an appearance every 6,800 years. Brennan Gilmore ...

Richard Dinan is the visionary entrepreneur who wants to help humans leave Earth and inhabit other planets in the Milky Way. And he wants to...

Almost every galaxy can be classified as a spiral, elliptical, or irregular galaxy. Only 1-in-10,000 galaxies fall into the rarest category ...

No matter what perspective you choose to look at it from, planet Earth is always in motion. Our planet rotates on its axis continuously, spi...

Just 12 million light-years away, the galaxies Messier 81 and 82 offer a nearby preview of the Milky Way-Andromeda merger. Right in our cosm...

The radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory at sunset near the town of Parkes, Australia, July 15, 2019.  Stefica Nicol Bikes/Reuters Myst...

Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, our Universe was born in a massive explosion that gave rise to the first subatomic particles and the laws of...

  Artist's illustration of the Local Bubble with the sun's location in the center and star formation occurring on the bubble's s...

In 2017, astronomers noticed a star streaking out of the Milky Way at nearly 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) — roughly four times faster t...

On April 28, 2020, two ground-based radio telescopes detected an intense pulse of radio waves. It only lasted a mere millisecond but, for as...

From the smallest microbe to the mightiest oak, death is as true for above as it is for below, even for the mightiest galaxies. The process,...