(AP) — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving ... can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be. This one is 100 light ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

The planets in the Solar System are all different but we can divide ... which is called the Milky Way. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our Solar System is about half-way along one of its ...

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.

The sun and the planets around it form part of the Milky Way Galaxy. "The Milky Way is a large barred spiral galaxy. All the ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Our solar system orbits the Milky Way galaxy once about every 225 million ... Astronomers discovered the star and a suspected accompanying planet after a 2011 microlensing event called MOA-2011 ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

The sun and the planets around it form part of the Milky Way Galaxy ... It takes 250 million years for the sun and the solar system to go all the way around the center of the Milky Way, according ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation ...