Our solar system is speeding through the galaxy at more than three times the velocity scientists once believed, according to a new peer-reviewed study. The findings,released in November 2025, could ...

Finding Earth’s exact position in the galaxy took centuries of observation and innovation. This story follows astronomers as ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...