What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble's results suggested the farther away a galaxy was ... farther away from each other and from Earth.

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy ... s surrounding the galaxy, and, eventually, where it joins the wider cosmic web and other galaxies.” ...