A team of astronomers has uncovered an unexpectedly complex and dynamic filamentary network within a very-high-velocity cloud ...

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New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.

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Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

A newly discovered object from deep space may be the oldest comet ever observed—possibly more than 7 billion years old, and ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...