Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

Our vast expanse of outer space provides endless star, moon ... The red planet While we don’t have images of many of the planets in the solar system since they’re too far away, we do have ...

It lies about 20,000 light-years from the Solar System ... the most massive and active star-forming clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. Hubble captured a beautiful image of Westerlund 1.

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has caught the first-ever direct image of two planets outside the solar system orbiting an Earth-like star. The trio captured on camera ...