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

The first official image from the Vera Rubin Observatory has revealed a ghostly river of stars stretching farther than our ...

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

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

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

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

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

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly ...

A mysterious, high-energy glow from gamma-rays in the Milky Way's center is reigniting the debate: dark matter or a hidden ...