If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars. But these sparkling lights are just a tiny fraction of our cosmic ...

Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across ... How our own ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal ... only bounces back 30% of its sunlight. Venus, the solar system's shiniest planet, reflects 75% of the ...

At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free ... like the original star cluster in which our own solar system formed. But early such clusters are tumultuous ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly quiet. It’s not creating any galaxy-wide tantrums that should worry us.

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.