Dwarkadas and his colleagues believe one massive star could have provided enough Al‑26 to account for the amount that researchers find in meteorites in our solar system.

In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is. They've concluded that about 10 percent of stars in the universe host systems of ...

We know a lot about our Milky Way Galaxy’s location in the universe thanks to efforts to map the distances to nearby galaxies. Our galaxy is a member of the Local Group — a small collection of ...

Planets beyond our solar system called "super-Earths" are common in the universe. Astronomers want to know if these worlds are habitable, and if any of them are like Earth. Instruments like the ...

Astronomers have identified the universe's oldest spiral galaxy from a blurry image captured by the ALMA observatory.

And third, you're moving because the sun and the rest of our solar system is orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy at over 500,000 miles per hour, or 828,000 kilometers per hour.

Scientists have located an ancient solar system, dating back to the dawn of the galaxy, which appears to be a miniature version of the inner planets in our own solar system.

The solar system, explained Our solar system is made up of the sun and all the amazing objects that travel around it.

But there's a viral video, parts 1 and 2, that claims that as the Solar System moves through the galaxy, it makes a vortex shape, pulling the planets behind it as it does.