The object seems to be travelling on a steep path - suggesting it came from the Milky Way's "thick disk", an area of ancient ...

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

Lead researcher Dr. Isabel Santos-Santos said, “We know of about 60 companion galaxies around the Milky Way, but we think ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe. Durham ...

NASA released images of star clusters NGC 460 and NGC 456 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Hubble shows visible light, while ...

The Milky Way could have more satellite galaxies than previously thought, according to new research. Cosmologists at Durham ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

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.