Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to ...

Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning red image of the Tarantula Nebula. it is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy. Hubble captured one of the most dynamic ...

We will never get an image of the Milky Way from above, but M81 or Bode's galaxy is a good stand-in – and now is a great time ...

Discover the fastest jet-stream winds on exoplanet WASP-127b, reaching 33,000 km per hour, driven by intense stellar ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. The latest estimates suggest there are around one septillion stars, which is a 1 followed by 24 zeros. Our sun is a typical G-type ...

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Supermassive black holes, 1,000 times larger than previously thought, have been discovered in LRD-type galaxies. This discovery could change our understanding of the early universe. Researchers using ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.