Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often ... light-years of the Milky Way. The new radio image helps to put in context the inset infrared image by the James Webb Space Telescope from 2023 of ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

Artist's impression of the Gaia telescope mapping stars of the Milky Way galaxy. | Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S ... a physicist at the European Space Astronomy Centre in Spain and a ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...