In the search for elusive particles called neutrinos, researchers are stringing thousands of detectors in the depths of the ...

How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an internation | Space ...

< Visual impression of the ultra-high energy neutrino event observed in KM3NeT/ARCA. The different col ... The KM3NeT Collaboration ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a Cosmic Bullseye, Found to Be a Galaxy With Star-Filled Rings Astronomers observed a unique image of a galactic collision between galaxies which created a ...

Nobody in space can hear you scream… with laughter, but they might after you've watched these sci-fi comedies.

These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second. There is another star that is almost as ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as ...

Ohio State astronomy professor Adam Leroy is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal, established in 1886, is awarded every four years to a researcher or pair of ...

In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several ...