Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

Researchers discovered Eos, a molecular cloud, using ultraviolet light. It is near Earth and lacks carbon monoxide. This ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

The planetarium, located at 100 Center Ave., is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date.

This ultra-massive system ... Milky Way -- both in shape, size, and stellar mass," she adds. Its disk spans over 60,000 light-years, comparable to our own galaxy, and contains more than 100 ...