By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

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

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

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere brimming with dusty clouds and the other encircled by a disk of material - ...

An artist's concept depicts the Milky Way galaxy and its spiral shape. Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms.

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, ... Our solar system is located in one of the spiral arms. NASA/JPL-Caltech.

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort ...

There will be no life on Earth at this time — increasing solar luminosity will have eradicated all life about 2.8 billion years before the first Milky Way/Andromeda close encounter.

The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other stars besides our sun. Nebula jar.

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our ...