Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Astronomers have detected possible chemical signs of life on a faraway planet. But they caution much more work is needed to ...

A team of UNSW Sydney researchers has unlocked the "sounds" of stars to better understand their age, mass, and evolutionary ...

For centuries, sailors spotted a soft white light across ocean waters, known as "milky seas." A new study examines the ...

Exoplanet orbits binary stars at a 90-degree tilt Discovered using ALMA and VLT telescopes Orbit challenges planetary formation theories ...

Scientists have detected potential evidence of life on K2-18b, a distant exoplanet. A Cambridge team using NASA’s James Webb ...

The research, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, detected evidence of compounds in the exoplanet's atmosphere ...

These events, dubbed “milky seas” by the sailors who have been ... “the bacterial population is responding in this way that is so dramatic, and in a way that we hadn’t really anticipated ...

The host star, located in the constellation Aquila within the Milky Way, is slightly redder and dimmer than our sun, with roughly 70% of the sun's mass. The ill-fated planet is thought to have been a ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...