Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

In the video, an animation shows the solar system revolving around the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The movement shown is spiral in nature. The planets are seen revolving around the sun while ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way ... system will merge into a single star within one million years, which helps explain the apparent lack of binary stars in the center of the galaxy.

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming a hypothesis made by happenstance nearly a century ago ...

Glimpses of a young galaxy forming in a way so similar to our own are unparalleled, Mowla says. The JWST images show a Milky Way-like galaxy in the early stages of its assembly in a universe that ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... and the closest brown dwarfs to the solar system. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects ...

It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured using the NOIRLabs’ International Gemini Observatory. NOIRLabs says that ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A mystery star located at the heart of the Milky Way could very well be from another ...