When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

The most common stars in the Milky Way may be even less friendly to life ... stellar bodies smaller and less massive than the sun, may blast their planets with intense ultraviolet (UV) light ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy ... gobbled up a planet a few hundred ...

Recently several groups of investigators have suggested that a few billion such objects could exist in the galaxy. Wickramasinghe and team have increased this grand total of planets to a few hundred ...

Astronomers have discovered what could very well be the Milky Way’s long-lost twin. The newly discovered galaxy is located ... Even some planets like Jupiter are believed to have eaten other ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied by Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars as they make their way through the night sky.

Astronomers have observed a flare of light near Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy ... hole may have gobbled up a planet a few hundred years ago ...

An artist’s illustration depicts the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas and dust.