"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our ...

Hubble's study reveals Andromeda experienced major galactic collisions, unlike Milky Way. Its satellite galaxies show unusual ...

This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.

Unlike the typical blue-and-green depiction of Earth, this photo shows the planet in a mossy green hue, framed by a thin ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted some strange behaviour from a swarm of galaxies around Andromeda, our neighbour ...

The enormous size of the Milky Way glows in the background over the Earth's curve, providing the massive scale of our home galaxy and a stunning view of our home planet from space. Don Pettit's ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...