We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Research published in October 2024 revealed that one planet was rotating around Barnard's Star, the second-closest single ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system ... to exist within the Milky Way galaxy. Of the known exoplanets ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...