The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky splash of light below is in fact the elliptical galaxy Messier 110, which plays ...

For decades, astronomers believed Andromeda and the Milky Way were destined to merge in about 4 billion years. But new ...

Astronomers use simulations to discover how globular clusters form and reveal a new type of star system near the Milky Way.

The white dwarf is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 255 light-years from Earth, relatively close in cosmic terms, and has a mass about 57% that of the sun ...

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

As Universe Today reports, scientists have worked back the trajectory of the comet, known as 3I/ATLAS, back to what they ...

In this excerpt from his new book, John Gertz argues it’s time to ditch SETI’s old dogmas and rethink how we prepare for ...

The composition of crystals in volcanic rocks changes with their ages in ways that correlate with the Solar System’s ...

The team at the University of New Hampshire worked on a mission that will help answer questions about how life formed on ...

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly ...

Astronomers have examined an infant galaxy 12 billion light years from Earth for the first time using a new powerful ...

The conditions favouring the possibility of there being advanced aliens are much rarer than thought, according to a new study, which suggests the nearest planet hosting extraterrestrial civilisation ...