"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

Euclid was launched atop a Falcon 9 in early July 2023 on a mission to map nearly a third of the sky in incredible detail.

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell 63, is located 650 million light-years from Earth. It is the glowing remains of a dying star, much like our Sun.

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...

The Australian research could lead to new insights about which suns could support life on distant worlds. Find out more.

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Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...