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

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? A team of researchers led by Dr. Daniel Angerhausen, a ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

So far, no evidence has been found that life exists on other planets. If this does not change with better instruments, it ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

It's believed to account for roughly 85% of the universe's mass, yet no telescope or sensor on Earth has been able to track ...

A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...