Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

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

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

And contrary to popular belief, our solar system does not sit at the ... believed that spiral nebulae were part of the Milky ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

A new study reveals Quipu, a vast network of galaxy clusters and superclusters, being dubbed the largest structure in the known universe.

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 ...

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

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... and the closest brown dwarfs to the solar system. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects ...

Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its ... brought about the birth of ...

Shapley suspected the spiral nebulas to simply be ... Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 light years across, and that our solar system was 50,000 light-years from the center.