In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it.

Our solar system is just a tiny island within a vast galactic sea. This journey moves outward to explore the structure of the Milky Way, from its spiral arms to its mysterious core. Discover how our ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, ...

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, a ghostly dirty snowball of rock, gas, and dust partially ...

Fig. 2: The Radcliffe wave. The clouds that comprise this structure are highlighted in red and superimposed on an artist's illustration of the Milky Way. The location of the Sun is highlighted by the ...