Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a rare solar system in the Milky Way that boasts six planets orbiting in perfect rhythm like a cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Astronomers recently made an important discovery when they found a rare "in-sync" solar system with six planets all moving in one big grand harmony, completely untouched by outside ...

Rogue planets do not orbit around a star, but instead wander through the galaxy aimlessly. NASA estimates there are billions ...

How many planets do you think are in this photo? At least hundreds of thousands according to a new joint Japan-New Zealand survey that scanned the center of the Milky Way in 2006-2007 looking for ...

THE SEARCH for other planets in the Milky Way has exploded in the last 25 years. Scientists have moved from mere theories about their existence to proof borne out by years of study of shifting ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...

The “most pristine” star ever seen may have just been discovered at the edge of the Milky Way. It could be the direct ...

(CNN) – Astronomers have discovered a rare family of six planets about 100 light years from Earth. The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a ...