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

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

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

It was previously thought that the gravitational forces around a black hole were too extreme for such a star system to ...

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are ... close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming a hypothesis made by happenstance ...

They found that not only do some stars there have planet-forming disks, but that those disks are longer-lived than those seen ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton ... but could even be the tip of the iceberg before planets themselves are detected near the black ...