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

According to Paul Robertson, associate professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine, discovering new exoplanets is common these days, but this planet is special because its star is located very ...

(CNN) – Astronomers have discovered a rare family of six planets about 100 light years from Earth. The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth. Reading time 2 minutes An astronaut recently captured an image of Earth from the ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

LOS ANGELES - The Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That's more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe.

UNDATED (WKRC) - Astronomers recently made an important discovery when they found a rare "in-sync" solar system with six planets all moving in one big grand harmony, completely untouched by outside ...