Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters --- unbound to any star system ...

The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over ... 2023 they will be joined by the red planet. Although far from its best (opposition in December 2022), it will have ...

Thus, these white dwarf stars can serve as unique, if distant, laboratories for studying the insides of demolished planets that are ... dwarfs cataloged by the Milky Way-mapping Gaia telescope ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

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A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...