A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

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

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 trillion observations of about 2 billion stars and other objects over the ...

Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. The latest estimates suggest there are around one septillion stars, which is a 1 followed by 24 zeros. Our sun is a typical G-type ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its ...

Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 light years across, and that our solar system was 50,000 light-years from ...