The first planetary system discovered was nothing like our own. It was more like a zombie solar system. Appropriately named ...

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

(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 ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

NASA announced on Wednesday, November 29, the discovery of a six-planet solar system in the Milky Way. According to NASA, the planets orbit their central star in a "rhythmic beat," Knewz.com has ...

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

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 ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

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

Milky Way—The faint band of light stretching ... of gas and dust that formed the young sun and the surrounding planets. Solar system—The sun and all the objects bound to it by gravity (planets ...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet about half the size of Venus orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our ...