The newly discovered planetary system consists of a white dwarf about half the mass of our sun and an Earth-like planet in an ...

The article explains star formation from gas and dust in nebulae to protostars igniting nuclear fusion. It covers the ...

The scientific community has long grappled with the question of whether these stars can support planets capable of sustaining ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet ...

Oleg Kononenko has safely returned to Earth following a record-breaking year-long stint onboard the International Space ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate for our planet billions ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a 'weird' galaxy with 'exotic' stars that may be the universe's ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause ...

Webb has been able to observe some of the oldest, faintest light in existence, including this strange galaxy, GS-NDG-9422, as ...