Topic: Milky Way Galaxy - CSMonitor.com

Livable super-Earths? Two candidates among Kepler's latest finds.

Researchers unveiled a total of three planets Thursday, including two potentially livable super-Earths. The discoveries bring the Kepler team closer to its goal.

Milky Way could be home to 4.5 billion Earth-like planets

Look to the stars

Gigantic orphan planet: Homeless world hurtles through space without star (+video)

Newfound 'super-Earth' could be habitable for life

Earth-sized planet too hot for non-asbestos life forms, but ...

Bizarre alien super-Earth planet probably made of diamond

Star hurtling through space near humongous black hole could prove Einstein's theory

Scientists surprised to find pair of black holes keeping each other company

Humongous, gassy halo found surrounding Milky Way

Gravity's Engines

Astronomers spot humongous 'supermom' galaxy fervently spawning stars (+video)

The unprecedented Phoenix Galaxy Cluster: How many stars does it form? (+video)

Mysterious black hole type perplexes, bewilders

Brightest and hottest stars have close, turbulent relationships, study suggets

Astronomers discover oldest spiral galaxy in the universe (+video)

Multi-telescope view two million times sharper than human eye reveals black hole

Hubble telescope reveals mysterious 'ghost galaxies' of ancient universe

Florida scientists reduced to holding bake sale to fund NASA

Lyrid meteor shower lights up sky around world (+video)

Planets found at dawn of universe, but their existence is a mystery

Astronomers say that there are billions of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy (+video)

Study indicates existence of billions of habitable alien planets in Milky Way (+video)

Planets hurtling near the speed of light? It's possible, study says.

Could free-floating 'nomad' planets carry seeds of life in the universe?