This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... like moons orbiting a giant planet. As a result of its vast size, the Milky Way can boast at least one planet ...

His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine. It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening ...

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 Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park ... will be joined by the red planet. Although far from its best ...