Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal.. It has grown by consuming other galaxies.Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda.Though galaxy collisions are ...

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are. Rogue planets—planets that are ...

The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little-understood class called sub-Neptunes, commonly found orbiting sun-like stars in the Milky Way.

(CNN) – Astronomers have discovered a rare family of six planets about 100 light years from Earth. The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little ...

(CNN) – Astronomers have discovered a rare family of six planets about 100 light years from Earth. The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a little ...