Gas streams gush into the Milky Way 's center and pile up into thick clouds, but for some reason, those ingredients don't materialize into as many stars as astronomers would expect.

Scientists mapped 650 light-years of the Milky Way’s core to examine star formation in one of the galaxy’s most extreme environments.

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Who’s ready for a “planet parade”? The last planetary alignment was in August 2025, when six planets aligned and four were bright enough to be seen without a telescope. Next week, Mercury, Venus, ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...

An unusual “inside-out” planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is challenging astronomers’ understanding of planet formation after being observed by the European Space Agency’s CHaracterising ...

For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is the central anchor point for the galactic disk and its surrounding ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

A huge clump of dark matter could be sitting on our galactic doorstep. Scientists found evidence of an invisible, massive nugget in the galactic neighborhood of the sun. The suspected clod of dark ...

In this video, we explore the true structure of the Milky Way, from its central bar and supermassive black hole to its spiral arms, halo, and dark matter envelope. You’ll learn where the Sun sits ...

From Voyager 1’s record-breaking journey into interstellar space to Uranus’s sideways spin creating decades-long seasons, the solar system is full of astonishing phenomena. The Moon keeps human ...

If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the planets orbit the Sun in more or less the same plane, traveling in the same direction. But what is above and ...