Thus, these white dwarf stars can serve as unique, if distant, laboratories for studying the insides of demolished planets that are otherwise out of reach ... by the Milky Way-mapping Gaia ...

The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius ... be joined by the red planet. Although far from its best (opposition in December 2022), it will have astrophotographers out in force to take an image ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many bright planets at once.

"Uranus and Neptune, two very distant ice giant planets out in our solar system, are also there in the sky," Dyches said.

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

The Moon is waning to a crescent and nowhere to be seen unless you’re out really late into the early hours. The arc of the Milky Way is visible ... the “king of planets”—at its brightest ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic ... such as planets, moons, asteroids, comets ...

A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal clouds that appear to be raining down titanium droplets. Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 ...