Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Thus, these white dwarf stars can serve as unique, if distant, laboratories for studying the insides of demolished planets that are otherwise out of reach ... by the Milky Way-mapping Gaia ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once.

"Uranus and Neptune, two very distant ice giant planets out in our solar system, are also there in the sky," Dyches said.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic ... such as planets, moons, asteroids, comets ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

The night sky is putting on a celestial show with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet ...

You’ll be able to view a rare alignment of planets this month and into February. Our astrotourism expert reveals the best places and ways to see the awesome spectacle.

Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral nebulas visible ...