Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers discovered Eos, a molecular cloud, using ultraviolet light. It is near Earth and lacks carbon monoxide. This ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new ...

"These proposed cuts will result in the loss of American leadership in science." — AAS American As-tronomical Society Board ...

This depiction is thought to illustrate the Great Rift, a band of dust and gas that appears to split the Milky Way in two ... they already had their own system of constellations and understood ...

Depictions on ancient Egyptian coffins and tombs suggest a link between the sky goddess Nut and the Milky Way. A recent study ...

If you look above and behind it, you'll see an undulating curve that may represent the Milky Way galaxy. . | Credit ... sometimes with stars and solar disks over her body. This posture shows ...