Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

Our Solar System orbits the galactic center at an estimated 792,000 kilometers per hour, taking 225 million Earth years to ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

A large radio galaxy study finds our solar system moves faster than theory predicts, raising new questions about how matter ...

There are plenty of awesome objects in the universe, made more marvelous by scientists’ ability to image and understand the laws and processes that make them possible. Each year, researchers make new ...

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is being pushed across the universe by a large unseen force, according to new research. Although it may not seem like a friendly gesture, the newly discovered Dipole ...

'Glitching' in this context refers to launching a rock with an extremely specific set of initial conditions precisely calculated to destroy the outer dynamic system(s). The word is borrowed from video ...

More than 70 million light years away from our solar system is a stunning spiral galaxy recently observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The universe is full of spiral galaxies, comprising about 77% ...

With each new year that comes upon us, there are a slew of new events awaiting us not only here on Earth, but throughout the entire observable Universe. Despite all appearances that things don't ...