Earth" featurette gives an exciting behind-the-scenes glimpse into the show’s stunning visuals, hybrid characters, and the ...

The truth about our place in the universe is far more complex than we’ve ever imagined. For centuries, we believed Earth’s position in the cosmos was fixed, but recent discoveries have completely ...

Scientists have found strong evidence of a giant gas planet in the nearest star system to our own. At four-and-a-half light ...

Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In the grand scheme of things, it is, but all those stars, galaxies, planets, ...

A study has suggested that this motion of our star through the galaxy potentially takes us through regions of space that could affect our planet's climate. According to the study, the Solar System may ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, revealed itself to an international team of scientists when it was observed emitting startling pulses.

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is ...

The process is much like how Earth' s magnetic field forms in its spinning, liquid iron core. And, although our galaxy’s magnetic field is incredibly weak, it still plays a powerful role in ...

Spitzer is currently based 128-million miles from Earth, farther than the distance between our planet and the sun, and is on a path circling the giant star. The discovery was made thanks to ...

While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars comprising our galaxy. "Milky Way ...