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 ...

Building on eight years of extraordinary discoveries by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS and SDSS-II), a new program of four coordinated surveys will revolutionize the study of the distant universe, ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Stargazers have a few upcoming opportunities to see our home galaxy spread across the night sky. Earth is one of hundreds of billions planets in the Milky Way, and the galaxy expands ...

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 ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion years. This scientific illustration depicts Earth's horizon four billion years in the ...

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

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 ...