When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...
The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...
Crew Dragon has never shone brighter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new video from humanity's largest orbital laboratory is a ...
In a new study published on arXiv, a team determined that the interstellar comet could be older than the solar system's Sun.
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...
The supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* lies in the middle of the Milky Way. Observations of S2 and other stars also helped astronomers calculate the extraordinary size and mass of ...
NEW YORK — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Nearly every large galaxy has a ...