Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

We refer to our own solar system as the solar system, and in a sense, it is the only one of its kind. For centuries, our sun was known as Sol, latin for sun and the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

How many suns exist in the Milky Way depends on what your definition of a sun. According to astronomers, our sun is considered a main-sequence G star. To know how many suns are in the Milky Way, ...

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 ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond comprehension. Our Earth, solar system, sun and billions of other stars, along with ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...