Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

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 ...

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

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

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

The universe is vast and full of mysteries, and recent advancements in astronomy are helping us uncover secrets about deep ...