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

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

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 light years across, and that our solar system was 50,000 light-years from ...

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

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

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 ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...