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 ...

An international team of researchers, including those from the University of Michigan, have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to witness the birth of planets around the young star system PDS ...

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, ...