Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our bodies, our planet, even the entire cosmos. These so-called neutrinos are ...

Somewhere between the stars, far from any sun, a planet is moving quietly through space. There is no orbit to trace and no glow to catch the eye, just.

The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 Earth masses. Its distance away from us comes out to about 9,950–10,000 ...

Abstract: Dark matter is a significant portion of the Universe but cannot be observed with the help of the standard electromagnetic techniques. This paper uses the dark matter density profile of the ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift alone through the Milky Way. Astronomers call these objects free-floating ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

Universe Today reports on new results from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission that show evidence of planets forming around very young stars. Planets are created inside discs of gas and dust that ...