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

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

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

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

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 Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy ... the system just in time.” ...

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 ...

We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system ... bodies might escape a solar system and how they would then move through the Milky Way. While it is always possible ...

Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy ... system to survive. Binary star systems are not rare. They account for about a third of the star systems in the Milky Way.