Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

The object, a celestial body from another star system, was discovered on Tuesday by the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid ...

Our solar system is in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way, ... We know a lot about our Milky Way Galaxy’s location in the universe thanks to efforts to map the distances to nearby galaxies.

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

The find, announced Wednesday, can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be. This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. A light-year is 5.8 ...

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.

A team from the University of Birmingham has found an ancient planetary system that is 11.2 billion years old (illustration shown), suggesting life in the universe is more common than thought.

The Milky Way Explorer, which was launched in 2013, also includes dozens more videos showcasing the diverse radio astronomy studies of our spiral island of stars, stellar nurseries, and dark matter.

Alpha Centauri isn't the only star system we've identified in this kind of detail, either. In 2023, scientists discovered a six-planet solar system 100 light years away in the constellation Coma ...

Then, our solar system would not even register if you were to get a snap shot of the galaxy that we are in, the Milky Way – which is around 950,000,000,000,000,000 kilometres wide.