However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way, ...

The solar system consists of stars, the Sun, 8 planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. It orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph.

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

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most ... just what the heck is going on with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into the atmospheres ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

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 ...