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

A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it.

Our solar system is just a tiny island within a vast galactic sea. This journey moves outward to explore the structure of the Milky Way, from its spiral arms to its mysterious core. Discover how our ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

In February, the bright band of the Milky Way appears higher in our pre-dawn sky. Find out where and when to see it.

In space, the gravitational pull of massive objects is irresistible to smaller ones. Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect ...

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, a ghostly dirty snowball of rock, gas, and dust partially ...

Fig. 2: The Radcliffe wave. The clouds that comprise this structure are highlighted in red and superimposed on an artist's illustration of the Milky Way. The location of the Sun is highlighted by the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...