Our planet is just the right distance from the ... Our Sun is just one of many billions of stars in our galaxy, which is called the Milky Way. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our Solar ...

I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters --- unbound to any star system ...

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

With this answer comes more of an idea about where planets are likely to form in our galaxy. They have found that stars with high-mass planets have higher metallicity than those with lower amounts ...

Astronomers may have discovered the fastest-moving planet system ever found, moving through our galaxy at speeds of at least ...

The first planet that was discovered around a star ... Unlike the sun, most stars in our galaxy have companions, with two or ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal ... College Park and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and lead author of the ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together ...