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

Interstellar tunnel linking our Solar System to cosmic neighborhoods. Learn how supernovae and stellar winds shape our galaxy ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy. Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have ...

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of interstellar space.

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from ...

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 ...

A binary star system has been discovered near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This finding confirms a hypothesis made nearly a century ago based on ...

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

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 ...

That is the question addressed in a new paper on the *arXiv*. It looks at how streams of interstellar bodies might escape a ...