The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...
An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...
Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) ...
Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.
Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, an isolated world drifting through the Milky Way without a host ...
On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...
The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...
Scientists measure a Saturn-sized rogue planet drifting through the Milky Way using rare Earth and space observations, revealing how planets can be ejected from their original systems.
The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...