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

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

We will never get an image of the Milky Way from above, but M81 or Bode's galaxy is a good stand-in – and now is a great time ...

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

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

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 ...

At just over 20,000 mph, experts say they're the fastest of their kind on any known planet. Find out more here.

Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning red image of the Tarantula Nebula. it is a star-forming region in the Large ...

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 ...

To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

WASHINGTON - In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 ...