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

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

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

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads ...