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

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most ... But just existing in a system with three super-puff exoplanets is an oddity. More work will need to be done to figure out ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most ... just what the heck is going on with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into the atmospheres ...

The Milky Way is itself on a collision course with our nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's ...

In our solar system, this process created the Oort cloud ... So star systems likely create bursts of ISOs, which then stream through the Milky Way until they encounter another star system.

On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

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

In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...