But the sun’s path around the Milky Way is much bigger. It takes about 250 million years for the sun to make a full orbit around the galaxy – even though the sun is traveling more than 500,000 ...

Have you ever wondered how fast the Earth moves in the vastness of the Universe?Embark on a journey to uncover the incredible ...

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Researchers thought this disk formed around 8 to 10 billion years ago, ... which runs about 3,200 light-years around the sun; for comparison, the entire Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years wide.

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, says Abigail Beall ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In space, the gravitational pull of massive objects is irresistible to smaller ones. Moons are ...

Formed around a distant star elsewhere in the Milky Way, it is an interstellar wanderer, not a merely interplanetary one.

The Milky Way hosts around 50 confirmed or suspected black holes. But there could be thousands or millions more, based on how many stars have likely died in the galaxy’s 13.6-billion-year history.

For the new study, researchers looked at more than 800,000 stars in the solar neighborhood, which runs about 3,200 light-years around the sun; for comparison, the entire Milky Way is about 100,000 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ancient stars located surprisingly near to our sun formed less than a billion years after the Big ...