We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan Mitchell Maricopa, Arizona Your excellent question affords us the opportunity to ...

Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...

Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated ... If a hypothetical Milky Way TDE’s cosmic rays lined up with the solar system, the effects would cause almost incomprehensible devastation.

One pointed near our solar system could strip away planetary atmospheres ... which is what has happened in the galaxy the new paper focused on. Astronomers believe the Milky Way likely had large-scale ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Classified as a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, these two new celestial bodies are among the most common types of exoplanets found in the Milky Way galaxy, yet are absent from our own solar system.

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light ... One pointed near our solar system could strip away planetary atmospheres, damage DNA and increase mutation ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way ... directly at the solar system, it would ...