Building on eight years of extraordinary discoveries by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS and SDSS-II), a new program of four coordinated surveys will revolutionize the study of the distant universe, ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Do galaxies, including our own Milky Way, orbit anything in the universe? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It seems like ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Stargazers have a few upcoming opportunities to see our home galaxy spread across the night sky. Earth is one of hundreds of billions planets in the Milky Way, and the galaxy expands ...

Greetings everyone! We’ve lost three of the five visible planets to the sun’s glare with only Jupiter remaining in the ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

It's a minefield out there! Especially around stars smaller than the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The most common stars ...

The Euclid space telescope unveiled seven more rogue planets in an image of the Horesehead Nebula, roughly 1,500 light years from Earth. Making the find even more incredible is that these ...

Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and in orbit, astronomers have discovered at least 70 ...

NASA scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered what they believe are 16 new planets deep in the Milky Way, leading them to conclude there are probably billions of planets spread ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...