The Italian government is investing 70 million euros into upgrades to Grottaglie Airport to allow it to serve as a spaceport for Virgin Galactic. Credit: Aeroporti di Puglia WASHINGTON — Virgin ...

Now a pair of studies published today in Astronomy and Astrophysics argue that the sun did not make this journey alone. The telltale sign of the sun’s galactic journey is its chemical composition, ...

Spread the loveAstronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery concerning the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby galaxy that has long served as a reference point in the study of galaxy formation ...

At approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, the Milky Way’s vastness and the broader, ever-changing dynamics of the cosmos defy any attempt to fully understand our home galaxy and its history.

Researchers have uncovered evidence for our sun joining a mass migration of similar "twins" leaving the core regions of our ...

A NASA astrophysicist has recently proposed a theory that could potentially resolve the long-standing Fermi Paradox. The theory suggests that alien civilizations may be scattered sparsely throughout ...

Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six ...