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 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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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?

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

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 ...