Greetings stargazers. Everything we know about things outside of our solar system is from the light we receive. I am using ...

Astronomers have detected an eerie glow of “ghost light” that could represent a previously unknown component of the solar system. Comparing data from two distinct viewpoints – Hubble and New Horizons ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

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Designed to unveil distant galaxies, Webb will also cast our stellar neighborhood in a whole new light. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the ...

On August 25th, 2012, humanity became an interstellar species. There was no fanfare or galactic welcome party as a humble robotic probe, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, crossed an invisible threshold. It ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...