In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

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

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Stars that currently live in the galaxy’s thick disk were born ... but he thinks the conclusion holds for larger planets, too. “If our theory is correct, and these disks really didn’t ...