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 ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around ...

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is ... His feature on the upcoming solar maximum was shortlisted in the "top scoop" category at the ...

Astronomers have released a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects. This is the most detailed map ever produced to date. Using the VISTA telescope at the ...

A new map of the "Cosmic Web" that shaped the ... our "cosmic address," which begins with Earth, the solar system, the Milky Way, the Virgo cluster, the Virgo supercluster, Laniakea and the ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic map of the Milky Way, unveiling discoveries that have changed their view of the galaxy “forever”. The infrared map contains more than 1.5 billion objects, ...

the so-called “solar system 2.0” just 41 light-years distant in the Milky Way. They found no evidence from within the star system, which is known to have seven planets orbiting a red dwarf star.