The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

We are now beginning to better understand exoplanets as against merely discovering them. These are the exotic worlds that ...

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.

A new theoretical study suggests fusion reactors could do more than generate energy, they might also produce particles linked to dark matter. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say they have ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

Oxygen detected just 300 million years after the Big Bang has caused viral claims that cosmology is wrong. But does this ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on ...

Everything that has a beginning will have an end. From organisms to planets, the arc remains the same for all parts of the ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

Hubble Space Telescope data reveal that two large collisions near the star Fomalhaut created dust clouds once mistaken for a planet, helping scientists better understand how planetary systems form ...