This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe, depicts the relatively uniform brightness ...

Our solar system exists in one of the Milky Way's smaller spiral arms — the Orion-Cygnus arm — which radiates out from the center of the galaxy. While we can use our vantage point to view ...

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

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy ... as well as the Galaxy’s central bulge and its satellite galaxies. As filming extended over several months, objects from the Solar System came and went ...

The Drake Equation, which was the agenda for a meeting of experts held in West Virginia in 1961, estimates N, the number of transmitting societies in the Milky Way galaxy ... e : The number of planets ...

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

Unfortunately, Earth — and the vast majority of the planets in the galaxy — just aren’t in the right position ... solar system resides in the galaxy, riding the edge of one of the Milky Way ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... being so close to our solar system, the explosion will not be ...

the solar system and galaxies. This clip helps to reinforce the meaning of a galaxy, using the Milky Way as an example. Many students will have preconceptions about what dark matter is ...

The new study suggests that miniture solar systems would not necessarily look like our own. This composite of planets in our solar system was ... called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the ...