What if Earth's perfect distance from the Sun was only half the story? Scientists now believe our solar system's location ...

Astronomers have discovered our solar system occupies a rare "safety zone" in the Milky Way, perfectly positioned between the ...

Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

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The Milky Way is really something to see — but not this month, when it’s at the level of the horizon before midnight. (The Columbian files) Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may ...

The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

What made the pulses puzzling to the astronomers was that they came in the form of both radio waves and X-rays. The discovery marks the first time that such objects, called long-period transients, ...