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

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

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

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision never before achieved. Surviving solar radiation and ...

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 ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety ... variables that he identified in our galaxy were the first rung.

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

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

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

Discover the fastest jet-stream winds on exoplanet WASP-127b, reaching 33,000 km per hour, driven by intense stellar ...