Earth is not alone, and a stunning new animation created ... a cross-cut view of the Milky Way; it looks this way because our solar system drifts within the spiral galaxy. Each circle that appears ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

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 ...

The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules throughout the galaxy. Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

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 ...