We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way, offering insights into ... to the discovery of planets outside our solar system and black holes. It also mapped millions ...

What the animated exoplanet timeline shows The video shows a flattened map of the 360 ... is a cross-cut view of the Milky Way; it looks this way because our solar system drifts within the spiral ...

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising spiral structure at the edge of our solar system that closely resembles the distinctive shape of our Milky Way. The discovery was made using NASA's Pleiades ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

Hypervelocity stars are created when a double-star system ventures too close ... the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way has about 4 million solar masses. Elsewhere in the universe, there ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.