If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled magnificent new images from its Euclid space telescope, representing the agency's first scientific discoveries from early observations. The project, which ...

Distances in space are usually impossibly large and hard to get a handle on but this week astronomers said as many as six percent of stars known as Red Dwarfs have planets around them in the habitable ...

Yale researchers co-authored the study uncovering “ultra-massive” galaxies formed briefly after the Big Bang, the creation of the universe. The discovery was based on observations from the James Webb ...

When NASA's next-generation space observatory launches in a few years, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will expand the search for exoplanets as well as rogue planets, or worlds that travel ...

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A dramatic life-and-death game of planetary survival is taking place inside a gigantic cloud of gas and dust 1,500 light-years from Earth, and the outcome could have far-reaching implications for the ...

NASA's forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will hunt for "cosmic orphans," starless planets that might even outnumber their orbiting counterparts in our galaxy. When you purchase through links on ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

"We were not looking for it. It is so huge that it spills to the edges of the sector of the sky that we were analyzing." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...