This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... and the closest brown dwarfs to the solar system. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects ...

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low ... move through the Milky Way." You can explore the team's 3D model of our solar neighborhood here.

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky ... solar storms along the way ...

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal clouds ... only bounces back 30% of its sunlight. Venus, the solar system's shiniest planet, reflects 75% ...

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. Milky Way , Stars ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...