Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

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 ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a rare solar system in the Milky Way that boasts six planets orbiting in perfect rhythm like a cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces ...

Astronomers now think that a collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy could cause the awakening of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, but the solar system could be blasted into interstellar space.

A week and a half after its discovery, there are clues about the origin and age of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS – and ...

Future earthlings may find this of interest, since the collision might knock our solar system "out of the Milky Way and into intergalactic space," said study lead author Marius Cautun of Durham ...

A nearby galaxy will slam into the Milky Way galaxy and send the solar system, where Earth resides, hurtling into space, according to a journal article in the Royal Astronomical Society.