You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

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

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

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Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

youthful stars that have been observed zipping around the Milky Way's center at hypervelocities, the new study suggests. Moreover, because young stars are often accompanied by planets, this ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

The Milky Way appears in the night sky at the U.S.-Mexico ... aim to further study such systems and explore the possibility of planet formation near black holes in our galaxy.

Exploring the staggering scale of our galaxy, the Milky Way, with its more than one trillion planets, this animation reveals ...

It seems plausible that the detection of planets in the galactic center is ... question orbits the cosmic titan at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The binary stars, designated D9 ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...