A detailed simulation of dark matter finds that dark matter haloes form in a wide range of sizes.
The Andromeda galaxy has an enormous halo of gas around it. It stretches as far as 2 million light years from the galactic center.
An Ancient Voyage Earth is on a journey… While our planet orbits the Sun each year – a billion kilometers – our entire Solar System is...
If you’re a Star Trek fan, you may think the above image portrays the “Nexus” from the movie Star Trek: Generations. In the film, the Nexus...
359 million years ago the Earth suffered one of its worst extinction events, and a team of researchers at the University of Illinois think that it...
NASA has just released an informative video that lets potential interstellar travellers know what they're in for!
What would we look for in a distant exoplanet in the hunt for Earth-like worlds, and perhaps life? A recent observation carried out by the Hubble...
Magnetars are the ultimate aggressive star: intense magnetic fields, massive outbursts, the works. We’ve known that magnetars are capable of producing some of the most powerful...
The helisphere is our shield against deadly cosmic rays from other solar systems. It looks like it has a much stranger shape than we could've imagined.