The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers ...

The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

Hawaii’s Gemini North telescope has captured new images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with a green glow as it remerges from ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal galactic rule—it's just one of many possible evolutionary paths. By recreating ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor, is visible this week as it departs the solar system, with some public events ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

Did an alien spacecraft just fly by Earth? That’s the question a lot of people, including Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, are asking right now. A massive interstellar object called ...

In the vast, quiet theatre of deep space, not many things capture the human imagination like a traveler from another world.

Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor, reaches its closest approach to Earth on Dec 19 at about 167 million miles - visible ...