Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

If you are away from city lights you’ll see the winter Milky Way stretching from the SSW horizon ... Little Dipper), Cepheus and Cassiopeia. In order of brightness in the March evening sky ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

Our sun and the planets that circle it are part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its name comes from the Greek galaxias kyklos (“milky circle”) and Latin via lactea (“milky road”). Find a remote area ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying ... lead author and doctoral student at the University of Vienna. "Our Sun encountered a region of higher gas ...

So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.

Scientists claim two of Earth's doomsday events from before the dinosaurs may have been triggered by a supernova exploding in the Milky Way. For decades scientists have dubbed several of our ...

The fact that the planets are lined up isn’t unusual — in fact, NASA says that’s the regular alignment. But since the Earth is orbiting around the sun, the perspective needed to see these ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water ...

NASA is set to launch its newest space telescope, SPHEREx, to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way alongside a sun-focused ... dust that give rise to planets and stars.