Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, and in 4 billion years, it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our solar system away ... a galaxy located roughly 270 million ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way ... system will merge into a single star within one million years, which helps explain the apparent lack of binary stars in the center of the galaxy.

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy ... dwarfs to the solar system.

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

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 ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way ... of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together ...

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.