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 galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in Nature ...

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

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

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy ... "Super puff planets are fairly rare, and when they do occur, they ...

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 ...

But around the cosmic time that we are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were about 10,000 times less massive than today’s Milky Way. Hopefully with the collaboration ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...