After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in breathtaking new photos from the European Southern Observatory.

Recently several groups of investigators have suggested that a few billion such objects could exist in the galaxy. Wickramasinghe and team have increased this grand total of planets to a few hundred ...

The most common stars in the Milky Way may be even less friendly to life ... stellar bodies smaller and less massive than the sun, may blast their planets with intense ultraviolet (UV) light ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring ... a free-floating planet in the Milky Way that does not ...

Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... the inner rocky planets Mars, Earth ...

In the background, the gassy, oblong Milky Way is visible. The Milky Way is seen edge-on, meaning that the photo looks across the galaxy’s diameter ... in that our planet—so famously blue ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy ... it could be a rogue planet speeding around the cosmos, or ...

There are around, well between 200 billion and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and the majority of those have planets orbiting around them - solar systems of their own. But all that mass ...