Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

Astronomers have discovered our solar system occupies a rare "safety zone" in the Milky Way, perfectly positioned between the deadly radiation of the galactic core and the elemental poverty of the ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

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Roughly 900 light years from Earth, astronomers have found a world where the weather reads like a fever dream: winds racing ...

Samsung recently carried out an “out-of-this-world” mission to promote the Galaxy S24 Ultra, particularly its cameras. The company sent four S24 Ultras to space and captured some stunning photos of ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...

The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...