The Dusty Hand spans some 80,000 light-years across, making it somewhat smaller than the Milky Way, and has sported two ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

The system ʋ Octantis (pronounced nu Octantis) should be hostile to planets. It contains a sub-giant star 57 percent heavier than our Sun and a white dwarf about 43 percent lighter.

Scientists using the XRISM satellite have uncovered a major clue to one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries: why galaxy ...

Dubbed Teleios, the unusually symmetrical space object is puzzling astronomers with its near-perfect shape and mysterious ...

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each ...

Venture into the cosmos and imagine the extreme conditions and potential dangers of visiting the galaxy's most hazardous planet. ‘Completely Collapsed’: New Tax Plan Targets California Crisis ...

Leonidas Varagiannis and Prasan Nepal face charges for allegedly leading an international child exploitation ring linked to the extremist group 764. Arrested in Greece and North Carolina ...

The heavy elements that stars make get pushed out of their host galaxy and into the circumgalactic medium through their explosive supernovae deaths, where they can eventually get pulled back in and ...

To continue Popinchalk's city analogy, by looking beyond the Milky Way we're asking how many people live in all the cities on Earth. "If our galaxy has around 100 billion planets, and there are ...

The plan is to point the thing at hundreds of millions of stars in our galaxy, looking for microlensing signals, the telltale signs of planets being present around said stars. The focus ...

This planet is the closest to our solar system of the four, giving scientists a unique opportunity to learn about what happens to these doomed worlds. The researchers observed the planet, named BD+05 ...