In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Here we can see the Moon (with Earth shining ... hypnotic Milky Way in all of its glory. The galaxy is thought to contain around 300 billion stars and even more planets, a figure that’s as ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

Trump’s pick to lead NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman, has not been approved yet, so no official changes in the plan have ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.