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Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...
Muhammad Umar, who uses his mother’s Celestron telescope to view the stars, said Jupiter, the largest and oldest planet in ...
Scientists have discovered that our galaxy may be surrounded by far more companion galaxies than previously detected. New ...
The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...
A renowned physicist believes he's cracked the mystery of where a giant unidentified object hurtling through our solar system ...
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the Big Bang.
In October 1604, astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler spotted a new star in the sky and began tracking it. Over the course of several weeks, the star remained visible in the daytime and ...
This stunning 527-megapixel composite reveals both visible and infrared views of young stars, ionized gas, and dust filaments ...
Back in 2010, scientists spotted something shocking: a pair of gigantic, glowing lobes of gas bursting from the Milky Way’s ...
Lynds 483 (L483) is a star-forming region 650 light-years away in Serpens. The James Webb Telescope captured glowing jets ...
What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...