Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

It’s invisible, deadly and sucking up every bit of matter in its path. The most massive black hole in the known Universe is ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

As the 3I/ATLAS nears its closest distance to Earth, an international team of astronomers now says the space rock may be covered in active, icy cryovolcanoes. If true, the evidence detailed in their ...

If we can see at most 3% of the universe, how can we estimate the total number of galaxies in it? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...