We know a lot about our Milky Way Galaxy’s location in the universe thanks to efforts to map the distances to nearby galaxies. Our galaxy is a member of the Local Group — a small collection of ...

Our solar system resides in the spiral Milky Way (MW) Galaxy. American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) is credited with discovering the shape and scope of it, so named because it looks like a hazy ...

In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is. They've concluded that about 10 percent of stars in the universe host systems of ...

From our tiny part of space, it can be hard to image exactly how much is out there beyond the reaches of our solar system. But in reality, our Earth is just a tiny part of our solar system, itself ...

No matter what you're doing right now – sitting, standing, walking – you're moving. Specifically, you're moving at least four different ways. First, Earth is spinning around on its axis at about 1,000 ...

Our solar system is peculiar. Yes, there are strange worlds out there: moons harboring oceans, a desert orb that once teemed with water, and, of course, a planet brimming with strange, tentacled life.

The Kepler Space Telescope found the oldest solar system in the galaxy. While digging through backlogged data from the Kepler telescope, scientists found Kepler-444, an 11.2 billion year-old star in ...

The universe is filled with billions of star systems. Located inside galaxies, these cosmic arrangements are made up of at least one star and all the objects that travel around it, including planets, ...