In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an internation | Space ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Just as modern telescopes reveal the hidden structure of nebulae and star clusters, understanding the physics behind twilight ...

A potential record-breaking exoplanet system, traveling at 1.2M mph, may be the first of its kind ever identified.

Scientists at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad have made a significant discovery, identifying a new ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced it has selected SpaceX at Starbase to launch its Pandora mission. Pandora, a small satellite, ...

How does a star’s activity influence exoplanet data obtained by scientists? This is what a recent study published in The ...