Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

Astronomers have narrowed down on the possible location ... Solar System where the elusive planet nine may be hiding, an advance that could shed more light on the evolution of our abode in the ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... and the closest brown dwarfs to the solar system. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects ...

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 ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

The Milky Way is a spectacular galaxy, not just because it is home to our solar system but also because ... These galaxies were all located between eight and 11 billion light-years away, meaning ...

The arc of the Milky Way is visible in the southwest right ... so you’re looking away from the Sun and into the outer Solar System. That’s why you can see Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—the ...

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth. Milky Way , Stars ...

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.