Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...

The planets of our solar system aren't randomly scattered. They all orbit in a near perfect, flat disc. The reason for this ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

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Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our own, thanks to the observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

It’s December, and we’re in our darkest month. It is also now meteorological winter — the name given to the coldest three ...

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Stellaris has a new DLC pack available right now, as the Infernals Species Pack adds new options along with two new origins and more ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

On November 30, the near-Earth asteroid Eros will pass within 2 degrees of the Andromeda Galaxy's core, offering a rare ...