Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the intense heat and persistence of the fiery hot gas surrounding the Milky Way.

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, ...

Astronomers used NASA's TESS telescope to discover a young planet. The researchers suspect it could become a super-Earth ...

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, ...

Astronomers have just found one of the youngest planets ever. At only 3 million years old, planet TIDYE-1b (also known as ...

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

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

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

Also one of the facts about planets is that Mars had a thick atmosphere in the past. It is believed to have water in the past ...