Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

If humans survive, they may become a galaxy-spanning Type 3 civilization, with colonists evolving into distinct species ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Researchers in Japan say they have used AI to produce the first Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion ...

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

A University of Arizona-led team has used a camera orbiting Mars to capture the closest images yet of a rare interstellar ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

These young, hot blue stars are members of the Pleiades open star cluster and resides about 430 light-years away in the ...

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...