The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

Spotted thanks to a fleeting light distortion in 2011, a mysterious duo — a tiny star and its hefty companion — has turned ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

None? One? Four? We’ll likely never know; our solar system’s 4.6-billion-year history offers a long time for shedding worlds into the Milky Way. But there very well could be galactic nomads ...