We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...
The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.
The Orion Nebula — where young stars are being actively born — serves as a natural laboratory for uncovering the secrets ...
If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...
In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini ... away from city lights you’ll see the winter Milky Way stretching from the SSW horizon to the NNE horizon.
Sunlight scatters off the mingled dust and sets it aglow. It's brighter nearer the horizon because we're looking more closely ...