Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...

Not far from the larger galaxy is a smaller one, seen in visible light images using the Hubble Space Telescope. Observations ...

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 light years across ... His subsequent tuning-fork diagram of the shapes of galaxies remains a classic teaching tool for astronomers, and even ...

According to Scolnic, the local universe containing the Milky Way and its neighboring galaxies ... “By extending the Hubble diagram to Coma, a well-studied location in our own backyard whose distance ...

Solar system planets diagram A diagram of the planets in our solar system ... 3D render realistic Uranus planet in plastic style 3D render Uranus. Planet in Solar system, Milky way galaxy. Realistic ...

Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.