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

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

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our ... brown dwarfs to the solar system.

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster ... which should help provide a more precise map of the largest structures in the universe. One group, led by ...

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

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

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy ... with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into ...

The new study suggests that miniture solar systems would not necessarily look like our own. This composite of planets in our solar system was ... called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the ...

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 ...