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

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

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 ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A mystery star located at the heart of the Milky Way could very well be from another ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming a hypothesis made by happenstance nearly a century ago ...

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

Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Keck telescope, astronomers have discovered a binary star system in the S star cluster close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the ...