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

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

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy ... with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into ...

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

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 ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

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?

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

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