The galaxy is thought to contain around 300 billion stars and even more planets, a figure that’s as staggering as it is ...

nor are they quite planets. Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

Whenever we have sufficient observations of such stars, we find planets, so there are likely to be far more planets in our galaxy than there are stars. Most of the planets that have been ...