The star-forming clouds are rising far above the plane of the galaxy and then back ... And that might have been an interesting time for life on Earth. These star-forming regions have more than ...

Virgin Galactic, a brand of Sir Richard Branson famous for its low-earth orbit rocket ship, has decided to throw its hat into ...

On Earth, we’d use one second as the known ... It also establishes the 2-dimensional galactic plane—the plane in which the majority of our disc-shaped galaxy's mass lies.

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

An earlier prototype of the Virgin Galactic rocket plane crashed during a test flight ... aeronautics body as defining the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space. "New Shepard was designed ...

Virgin Galactic is on track to embark on its fifth ... Additionally, they will have a rare opportunity to gaze upon the Earth from a vantage point in the suborbital position.

A science instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been switched off and on again by NASA engineers after the spacecraft was struck by galactic rays, according to the space agency.