"The most exciting part of the HSC was the discovery of 11 objects at distances beyond the known Kuiper Belt," said Yoshida.

This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

Now, the powerful space telescope has pushed it to the edge closer to home in our very own galaxy, the Milky Way. A team of ...

Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of a ...

IT is easy to feel like we know nothing about our universe, and unexplained stellar objects are the most puzzling feature of ...

The Milky Way is the galaxy our solar system calls home. For thousands of years, the Milky Way's beauty and wonder have inspired legendary stories and curious astronomers gazing at the night sky. Much ...

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising group of frozen bodies orbiting the Sun, far beyond the Kuiper Belt. Using the Subaru ...

The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call ...

The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping ...

Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...