If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

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

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most ... just what the heck is going on with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into the atmospheres ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

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

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...

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.