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 ...
The Star Wars universe has expanded once again with Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew , and fans are already abuzz with ...
Our galaxy could be littered with warm, watery planets like Earth. That's the conclusion of researchers at Penn State University, who used data from NASA's Kepler telescope to estimate the number ...
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 ...
Warwick astrophysicist Dr Thomas Wilson said: "This is a really exciting discovery and will help our research into planets similar to Earth across our galaxy." The planet has an estimated surface ...
The Sombrero galaxy looks entirely different in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a Mexican hat, it ...
Indeed, our galaxy is so huge that dozens of lesser galaxies scamper about it, like moons orbiting a giant planet. As a result of its vast size, the Milky Way can boast at least one planet with ...
The Sombrero galaxy, which is about the size of the Milky Way, is positioned some 30 million light-years away. The Webb ...
Data from the Kepler space telescope combined with the ‘Drake Equation’ has revealed that there are at least 300 million potentially habitable planets within the Milky Way galaxy, but outside ...
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 ...