Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters --- unbound to any star system ...

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever ...

Since the first exoplanet discovery in the 1990s, scientists have found a plethora of worlds around different stars in our galaxy. According to the NASA Exoplanets website, over 4,000 exoplanets have ...

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 ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

Astronomers identified colossal jet-streams on planet WASP-127b in our galaxy, with winds reaching 33,000 km/h. Meanwhile, a ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

this could approach one planet per stars—so we are a hundred times more likely to find liquid water than we thought.” Since there are at least 100 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy ...