Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, called circumbinary planets, orbiting two stars. But for sheer ...

Independent scientists described the findings as interesting, but not nearly enough to show the existence of life on another ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

A team of UNSW Sydney researchers has unlocked the "sounds" of stars to better understand their age, mass, and evolutionary ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array puts the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Sagittarius C region in context. The MeerKAT image spans 1,000 light ...