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

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

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

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

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 ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

It looks at how streams of interstellar bodies might escape a solar system and how they would then move through the Milky Way. While it is always possible for a random asteroid or comet to have a ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...