A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

To test the method, Hawkins and his colleagues tasked the algorithm to sort nearly 100,000 white dwarfs cataloged by the Milky Way-mapping Gaia ... provides one of the largest spectroscopic ...

The star is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila.

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish ... telescope called the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope that will also use more ...

Scientists claim two of Earth's doomsday events from before the dinosaurs may have been triggered by a supernova exploding in the Milky Way. For decades scientists have dubbed several of our planet's ...