Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its ...

Interstellar tunnel linking our Solar System to cosmic neighborhoods. Learn how supernovae and stellar winds shape our galaxy ...

Telescope examines atmospheres of exoplanets, searches for signs of life, focuses on universe's 1st stars, galaxies, objects ...

The Milky Way seems to be currently colliding with one of its galactic neighbors, and that discovery might change how we ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way ... system will merge into a single star within one million years, which helps explain the apparent lack of binary stars in the center of the galaxy.

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from ...