Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

The Milky Way is not just a band of stars stretching across the night sky; it's a massive, dynamic galaxy spanning over 200,000 light-years and containing hundreds of billions of stars, planets, and ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Researchers at Oxford have discovered that comet 3I/ATLAS may be over 7 billion years old, making it the oldest one we've ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of ...

Our galaxy is a member of the Local Group — a small collection of galaxies, of which the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are the two largest. About 50 smaller galaxies surround them.

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

The find, announced Wednesday, can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be. This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. A light-year is 5.8 ...

Our solar system lies just above the Milky Way disk midplane. The bright band that we can see on a clear night is the disk of our home galaxy, and we are inside it. The brightness comes from the ...

A 6-planet solar system was found in the galaxy. (THIBAUT ROGER/NCCR PLANETS) By CNN newsource staff. Published: Dec. 3, ... commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.