Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

The Milky Way seems to be currently colliding with one of its galactic neighbors, and that discovery might change how we ...

In the video, an animation shows the solar system revolving around the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The movement shown is spiral in nature. The planets are seen revolving around the sun while ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its ...

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give ... One of them has yielded the first compelling evidence of a binary star system — called D9 — orbiting the galactic ...

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

It looks at how streams of interstellar bodies might escape a solar system and how they would then move through the Milky Way. While it is always possible for a random asteroid or comet to have a ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

the solar system and galaxies. This clip helps to reinforce the meaning of a galaxy, using the Milky Way as an example. Many students will have preconceptions about what dark matter is ...