Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

Astronomers have uncovered a newborn exoplanet that formed in just 3 million years, a remarkably swift process in cosmic ...

It is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 520 light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, ...

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3mn years to form – quite swift in ...

The sun and the planets around it form part of the Milky Way Galaxy. "The Milky Way is a large barred spiral galaxy. All the ...

Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years ...