Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Spanish astronomers have conducted deep optical imaging of an isolated dwarf galaxy known as NGC 6789. Results of the new ...

A newly revealed image from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has exposed a 163,000-light-year-long stream of stars trailing the ...

A dwarf galaxy 100 million light years away is being stripped of its crucial star-forming gas, and it seems that the cosmic ...

Astronomers studying extreme planetary systems have identified worlds so massive that they rival the smallest stars in size.

The first image from the Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of the galaxy M61 that may explain ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Scientists once thought this tiny galaxy was held together by dark matter. An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space ...