After being thrown through space by a solar flare, Astrodude questions the reality of the universe, encountering talking ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Milky Way has a dark blob, known as Barnard 68 (B68), which is a Bok globule around 500 light ...

What is the actual speed and direction of our solar system as it moves through the cosmos, and how does this compare to longstanding cosmology models? This is what a recent study published in Physical ...

We’ve found lots of “habitable” worlds but we don’t know what factors are needed for life. There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure of the universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

"We have been calling Uranus an ice giant, but we don't really know its nature." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers say ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days of stealth may be numbered. Two teams of researchers propose methods to search for ...