We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming from gas in their central parts. Visualizations like these inform ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way ... directly at the solar system, it would ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close ...

They have already set out to test their hypothesis with future observations. The results reported here have been published as Xiangyu Zhang and Gregory M. Green, “Three-dimensional maps of the ...