"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would ... detectable from Earth. De Ruiter, who developed her ...