The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a brown dwarf, named Gaia-5b, orbiting a low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the star Gaia-5, around 134 light-years away from ...

rhymes with fluid) is a high-precision radial-velocity spectrograph that is designed to measure the extremely minute wobble of nearby stars using ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...

For decades, astronomers believed that planets couldn’t form in the early universe due to a lack of heavier elements like ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...