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 ...

NASA has shaken up the universe once again, this time through the discovery of the fastest object ever spotted, which ...

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

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our own, thanks to the observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

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

Astronomers first documented a CME in 1859, in conjunction with the widespread energy grid disruptions that later became ...

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...

Earth," is situated in a relatively close region of the Milky Way Galaxy and resembles Earth in appearance but is many times ...