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 ...

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 ...

"Let's count down 11 recently discovered Earth-like planets! When Earth is no longer habitable, where could humans go? These ...

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, which is about the size of the Milky Way, is positioned some 30 million light-years away. The Webb ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...