A team of scientists has unveiled the existence of an interstellar tunnel near our solar system, which could be a gateway to ...

The solar system drifts inside an immense, low-density cavity known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This region, spanning at ...

studying celestial X-ray objects to help illuminate why gas at the core of the Centaurus galaxy cluster approximately 170 million light years away is not generating young new stars as rapidly as ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

The tip of CG12 is also known as NGC 5367 in the Centaurus constellation. This region is easier to see as a “reflection nebula” as the light of the bright stars scatters off of the enveloping ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...