That October, for the very first time, an interstellar object was caught diving into and then scarpering away from our solar system ... object has left our galactic neighborhood forever, and ...

1st conclusive evidence of black holes at galactic centers (1994 ... the three-dimensional structure of the dust shells around the star. 6. Charting a safe course through Pluto's neighborhood (2005) ...

At sundown, at a star party on the high texas ... teamed up with the astronomer Edwin Hubble to chart the size and expansion rate of the universe. The solar research conducted by the industrial ...

The NASA New Horizons spacecraft's extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new look at ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

Stars have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around ...

Since astronomers started discovering extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," in the mid-1990s, worlds orbiting other stars have demonstrated that, compared to our somewhat mundane solar system ...

A vast star-forming cloud of molecular hydrogen that is one of the largest single structures in the sky has been discovered hidden near the solar system. The crescent-shaped cloud—which its ...