NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning ...

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Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Inverse sat down with space engineer and sci-fi author Gentry Lee about his new documentary 'Starman,' and his thoughts on ...

All winter long I’ve been meaning to write about the little constellation Aries the Ram, and finally on this last weekend of ...