Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many planets ... Its claim to fame is that it's the largest such map ever made and it's the most ...

Milky Way May Have Billions of Earth-Like Planets There could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy, according to a new study. WSJ's Monika Vosough reports.

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal clouds that ... It's also very big and very hot, about 3,6oo degrees Fahrenheit, which means it's similar ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be resolved? Omega Centauri is a massive star cluster with ...

Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over ... 2023 they will be joined by the red planet. Although far from its best (opposition in December 2022), it will have ...