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 ...

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

If you look up in the sky at night at Cassiopeia, you'll notice a faintly glowing object located just off ... it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our solar system away from our own ...

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 ...

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?

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

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 ...

The arc of the Milky Way is visible in the southwest right ... so you’re looking away from the Sun and into the outer Solar System. That’s why you can see Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—the ...

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

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 ...

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.