The most common stars in the Milky Way may be even less friendly to life ... stellar bodies smaller and less massive than the sun, may blast their planets with intense ultraviolet (UV) light ...

I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters --- unbound to any star system ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park ...

(AP) — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand ... can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be.

Milky Way May Have Billions of Earth-Like Planets There could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy, according to a new study. WSJ's Monika Vosough reports.

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have ...

Giant, gas-rich planets may have been able to form more ... Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way about 200,000 light-years away. Dwarf galaxies like the SMC are ...

There are around, well between 200 billion and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and the majority of those have planets orbiting around them - solar systems of their own. But all that mass ...

A team of international researchers has identified the first-ever binary star system near Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study.