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

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... and the closest brown dwarfs to the solar system. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects ...

Currently, scientists’ knowledge of its shape is based on what is known about other galaxies and models of our own solar system – but it is not ... they could develop a three-dimensional map of the ...

In the video, an animation shows the solar system revolving around the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The movement shown is spiral in nature. The planets are seen revolving around the sun while ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing the existence of "cosmic tunnels" that connect our solar system to other stars. Using data from the eRosita X-ray ...

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. Milky Way , Stars ...