Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky Way ... Omega Centauri — a remnant of a dwarf galaxy ...

Orbiting in one of the Milky Way's spiral arms, it takes us on a journey around the galaxy roughly once every 230 million years on our lonesome. The nearest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri ...

Galaxy A galaxy is a vast system comprising gas, dust, billions of stars, and their planetary systems, all bound together by gravity. The Milky Way ... Alpha Centauri is the nearest star system ...

With a minimum of 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, that means there are at least 25 billion places where life could conceivably take hold in our galaxy ... star system, Alpha Centauri, which ...

Currently, scientists’ knowledge of its shape is based on what is known about other galaxies and models of our own solar system – but ... stars within the galaxy, they could develop a ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared ... studying a binary star system 61 ...

The Laser Guide Star (LGS) is launched from the VLT’s 8.2-meter Yepun Telescope and aims at the center of our galaxy, in the heart of the brightest part of the Milky Way. The laser beam is part of the ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

But some projects are designing ways to propel payloads to the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri) using beams ... This Is the Best Way to Exit Our Solar System So…what’s the catch?