The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights a contradiction in our understanding of alien life: despite ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Did you know that the sun is up for more hours this month than in August? August is summertime, and May is still spring, so it may not seem quite right.

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

A remarkable new study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered shocking details about a star-forming region ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...