In February, the bright band of the Milky Way appears higher in our pre-dawn sky. Find out where and when to see it.

We refer to our own solar system as the solar system, and in a sense, it is the only one of its kind. For centuries, our sun was known as Sol, latin for sun and the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Objects such as 'Oumuamua, Borisov and recently 3I/ATLAS have opened our eyes to the reality that ...