A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...

Astronomers using the «James Webb» telescope have obtained a unique image of the exoplanet 14 Herculis c, which turned out to ...

Twin satellites fly 150 meters apart with millimeter precision, allowing detailed observation of the Sun's corona during long ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant celestial body that may be a new dwarf planet, orbiting the Sun from more than twice the distance of Pluto. Found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

More specifically, with the Moon blotting out the main disk of the Sun, we can see details and features in the solar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest known ...

Lovejoy likely hails from the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy objects thought to surround the solar system ... would sail harmlessly by Earth at a distance of 600,000 miles.