"The Milky Way's satellite population is a unique combination of small satellites containing only older stars, and its two ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever made has been published after observations by the VISTA telescope over ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate ...

The red giant phase is pretty crazy. The star's outer atmosphere can expand to hundreds of times its initial size; some ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

Previous research published earlier in the year suggested that our Solar System crossed a dense interstellar cloud 2 million ...

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across ... four surviving terrestrial (rocky) inner planets. The largest celestial bodies in our ...

A group of scientists was only looking to observe the cosmic web when it stumbled upon the 10,000 pairs of new blackhole jets ...