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 ...

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, ...

Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

One of the most important scientific questions today is how many potential Earth-like Habitats (EHs) exist in the Galaxy, and ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years ...

That massively increases the chances of life existing elsewhere in the galaxy, say the authors. “It was estimated that around one rocky planet around every 100 stars would have liquid water ...

a combination of forces exerted by distant stars in the Milky Way galaxy. But Batygin and his team ran computer simulations to test this scenario versus the presence of Planet Nine, and they found ...

Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return to the Andromeda Galaxy and examine it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that the ...

And the Milk Way is just one galaxy in the Universe. Solar System – A group of objects orbiting around a star. Planet – A large, spherical object orbiting a star. Moon – A large object ...

However, as players begin to progress their way through the outer space-themed storyline and objectives of Little-Known ...