Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...

Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 light-years and contains between ... Related: How many galaxies are in ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

For millennia humankind has peered into the night sky looking at stars far beyond the confines of our solar system. Now, in a first for our species, astronomers have captured an image of a star beyond ...

ANSWER: Very big!! The Milky Way Galaxy is one of billions of galaxies in the known universe. The Milky Way is a spiral ...

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

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 ...