A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

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

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky surveys, astronomers now think all those places are part of an ...

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

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

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 you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars. But these sparkling lights are just a tiny fraction of our cosmic ...

The Sun, the planets, and all the other flotsam and jetsam that constitute the solar system are ... bob up and down through the Milky Way’s arm. Our planetary system also orbits the galactic ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

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

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

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.