Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra's song "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic ...

The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the theory that dark matter could be the source.

Direct from Northern Ireland is theater company Cahoots NI with an out-of-this-world production of Secrets of Space!

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

When it comes to science, a simple observation can upend everything you think you know, such is the case with one star ...

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

The galaxy our planet inhabits is called the Milky Way for the simple reason that, as seen from our world, its impossible-to-count collection of stars looks like a band of milky white light. In all ...