We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which ... and dust that orbit the central core. The solar system orbits within the Milky Way's disk.

And the Milk Way is just one galaxy in the Universe. Solar System – A group of objects orbiting around a star. Planet – A large, spherical object orbiting a star. Moon – A large object ...

Classified as a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, these two new celestial bodies are among the most common types of exoplanets found in the Milky Way galaxy, yet are absent from our own solar system.

By Alimat Aliyeva A group of European, British, and American astronomers has discovered 34 binary white dwarf systems i ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the ...