Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Greetings everyone! We’ve lost three of the five visible planets to the sun’s glare with only Jupiter remaining in the ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our own, thanks to the observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

If humans survive, they may become a galaxy-spanning Type 3 civilization, with colonists evolving into distinct species ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...

Researchers in Japan say they have used AI to produce the first Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion ...

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...

The near-Earth asteroid Eros will pass by the galaxy Andromeda this evening. The rare event will be streamed live.