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A new study suggests our sun might be a migrant from a more central region of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It suggests our sun joined a migration of

Artist’s concept of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS passing near our sun, with the sun illuminating one side of the comet. On the day side of the comet we see methanol gas

View larger. | Both Voyager spacecraft are rushing away from Earth and into interstellar space. Yet for a portion of every year, both spacecrafts’ distances to Earth decrease. How is

This computer simulation shows the merger of 2 black holes. As the black holes spiral toward each other, collide and merge, they create gravitational waves. Scientists made this simulation using

The Very Large Array is a collection of 27 radio antennas located near Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 82 feet (25 m) in diameter and weighs

Don’t miss this astounding 40-second video. It shows the DART spacecraft’s strike of the asteroid moon Dimorphos, in the year 2022, from the vantagepoint of a camera on the spacecraft.

View larger/ full image. | This new image of 3I/ATLAS shows the interstellar comet shining against a background of stars. The European Space Agency’s JUICE spacecraft obtained this image and

View larger. | This new moon map shows a global view of small mare ridges in maria on the moon’s near side. A new study said these small ridges are

Artist’s concept of a tardigrade, or water bear, floating in space. These creatures are small, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. But a new study