Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

Chinese researchers examining European data find freshly formed stars rotate much faster than their predecessors.

Astronomers believe the two galaxies may collide in next 10 billion years Theory based on data from Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia star-tracking mission 'In short, the probability went from near ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.