You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky surveys, astronomers now think all those places are part of an ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Auroras are one of our night sky’s most dramatic spectacles ... the Sun releases charged particles that speed across the ...

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies ...

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.

The annual Leonids meteor shower is due to peak next week, hopefully giving stargazers a treat to brighten up the dark winter ...

If you missed the chance to see fireballs of the Southern Taurids light up the sky last week, don't worry. The second branch ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

as evidenced by the fact that it will be in a planet parade in January 2025 that'll eventually see all seven planets in our solar system visible in the night sky at once.