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

When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...

In a few billion years, our Sun will become so violently hot that it could wipe out all life in the Milky Way. Yet, ...

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For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

The Sun's structure includes the photosphere (visible surface), chromosphere (reddish layer above the photosphere), and corona (outermost layer with extremely high temperatures). The Sun emits a ...

Astronomers have identified 3I/ATLAS, an ancient, ice-rich interstellar comet potentially older than our solar system.

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

It’s been textbook knowledge for over a century that our Milky Way galaxy is doomed to collide with another large spiral galaxy, Andromeda, in the next 5 billion years and merge into one even bigger ...