Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...

The Milky Way Galaxy Nestled in the heart of Namibia, the NamibRand Nature Reserve offers an unparalleled view of the Milky ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

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.

Florida's 2045 eclipse will be 2 hours and 42 minutes, beginning at 12:12 p.m. for Indian River and St. Lucie counties and 12 ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light ... any one-Jupiter-mass objects free-floating out in our Milky Way galaxy, unless they were formed as planets and then ...