The sun and the planets around it form part of the Milky Way Galaxy. "The Milky Way is a large barred spiral galaxy. All the ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

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Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small galaxy, just a tenth of the Milky Way’s mass. It is about 160,000 light years away, which is remarkably close in cosmic terms. In the southern hemisphere it spans ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...