We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center ... environment encountered by the Sun while sailing through our Galaxy. Fig. 2: The Radcliffe wave. The clouds that comprise this ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our Solar System is about half-way along one of its arms. Our Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way at about 140 miles every second. It takes about 230 ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system ... in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

As per NASA, Oort Cloud is the most distant region in our solar system (Representational picture). A mysterious cloud of space rock and debris in the outer reaches of our solar system might ...

Classified as a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, these two new celestial bodies are among the most common types of exoplanets found in the Milky Way galaxy, yet are absent from our own solar system.