The event KMT-2020-BLG-0414 was detected by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network, with the lensing star and its ...

Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...

An exoplanet is a planet from a different star system. Most known exoplanets orbit stars within the Milky Way ... shorthand with descriptions like "super-Earth," hot Jupiter, and mini-Neptune.

Exploring the staggering scale of our galaxy, the Milky Way, with its more than one trillion ... is finding a true Earth twin ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

making a year on the planet shorter than a single day on Earth. Scientists have proposed numerous hypotheses to explain the scarcity of hot Neptunes. While our Milky Way galaxy is abundant with ...

The discovery comes just days before what is anticipated to be a bumper year for exoplanet discovery, with the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to release more data.

A binary star system is orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists ... as well as others out there -- like the Andromeda galaxy, the closest to the Milky Way about 2.5 million light-years ...