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 ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

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(AP) Our Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That’s more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe. Just how ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, observing hundreds of millions of stars and exoplanets in the Milky Way’s center.

Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and in orbit, astronomers have discovered at least 70 ...

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy. Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

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, ...

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 ...

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