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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

New research shows that Theia, the planet that collided with Earth and formed the Moon, was a rocky world born closer to the ...

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

With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

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