At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough by discovering four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our closest ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered complex atmospheric shifts in SIMP 0136, a free-floating ...

If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust, swirling around newly formed stars across the Milky Way. Known as ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting measurable accelerations to Milky Way pulsars. They, in turn ...

The red color of Mars could be due to the presence of an iron-containing mineral, which requires cool water to form, suggesting that the planet may have been habitable in the past, according to a new ...

Studying Snowball Earth offers a window into our planet’s past, but it also presents valuable insights into modern climate change, lead study author Dr. Chris Kirkland said. “Our deep time ...

So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.

When this occurs, the planets appear along a line or an arc due to the way they are viewed from Earth, NASA adds. Whilst planetary parades of four or five planets happen relatively regularly ...