Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming a hypothesis made by happenstance nearly a century ago ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its ...

The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way ... system will merge into a single star within one million years, which helps explain the apparent lack of binary stars in the center of the galaxy.

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in ...

Glimpses of a young galaxy forming in a way so similar to our own are unparalleled, Mowla says. The JWST images show a Milky Way-like galaxy in the early stages of its assembly in a universe that ...

Nearly every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its heart. The one in the middle of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius ... “We observed the system just in time.” ...