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 ...

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.

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years ... The aim is to build the largest and most precise 3D map of our local universe. The spacecraft's first data release ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...

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% ...

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 ...