The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, serving as the final boundary between us and the dark reaches of interstellar ...

The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a distant spiral galaxy into a laboratory for extreme weather in space ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Located 95 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, barred spiral edge-on ...

Taofiq Huq was just five years old when he arrived in Australia from Bangladesh. Even as a young schoolboy in Sydney, he knew that he wanted to ‘do something in space’ when he grew up and completed an ...

The outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions, a study led by an Indian-origin researcher has found. The findings, ...

Findings from a Rochester Institute of Technology study provide further evidence that the outskirts of spiral galaxies host massive black holes. These overlooked regions are new places to observe ...

Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the edge of a spiral. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, UGC 10043 is one of the somewhat rare spiral ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A stunning new photo captures a unique edge-on view of a large spiral galaxy, revealing ...