A POWERFUL telescope floating in space has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring of light around a nearby galaxy. The ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

A view of a "mystery galaxy shape" has been captured by a northern lights chaser in Iceland ... as well as the decade to come due to high solar activity, which is expected to peak between January ...

Auroras could light up the night sky following a severe solar storm. Another display of the northern lights could be visible this weekend in several U.S. states following a severe solar storm.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way ... it would look like an enormous spiral about 100,000 light years across. The centre of the galaxy is a dense and chaotic place ...

That will make it a great time to see zodiacal light—sunlight reflecting off cosmic dust left in the solar system ... M81 (Bode’s galaxy) is a large spiral galaxy about 12 million light ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters ... in the Orion Trapezium star cluster some 1300 light years away in Orion. They simulated 2522 planets ...

Imagine a spacecraft propelled by nothing but light. A massive aluminum-coated ... and scientists have envisioned spacecraft powered by solar sails since the 1600s. But now this fanciful concept ...