PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

Scientists have just discovered a super-Earth less than 20 light-years away — and it might be the most promising place yet in ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth. reading time 2 minutes An astronaut recently captured an image of Earth from the ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

The reason people might think Earth has a second moon is due to a celestial body named 2025 PN7 that was spotted in August by ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...