Locating sources of gravitational waves using artificial intelligence could enable astronomers to point telescopes at stellar ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...

Scientists have uncovered a new way rogue planetary-mass objects (PMOs) may form—not as failed stars or ejected planets, but ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.

The cosmos is an everchanging tapestry constantly evolving and presenting new wonders for scientists and stargazers alike.

The arms were brought into existence by “galactic tides”—gravitational forces that ... we can see most other stellar systems and galaxies better than we can see our own, which sounds nicely ...

The proximity and the approach make Alpha Centauri a great case study for the spread of interstellar objects. That is why ...

Our Solar System Has Been Infiltrated by Over One Million Interstellar Objects From The Nearby Star System The solar system ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...