Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins ...

A newly discovered interstellar comet could be older than the Solar System, and scientists think it carries secrets from the ...

The study was recently presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Durham, England where researchers revealed that the comet may have originated from the Milky Way 's ...

Researchers from Caltech Catch Dwarf Planets Helping Space 'Vampire' For a long time, astronomers have known that over the ...

The free, multi-experience event invites visitors of all ages to explore Cambridge’s rich legacy of scientific achievement through immersive exhibitions, hands-on STEM workshops, and city trail maps ...

New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

They often twirl around heavier ones, like our Milky Way, as satellite dancers. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way ...