Scientists discover low-mass microquasars can accelerate cosmic rays, reshaping theories on high-energy particle origins.

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

An official statement issued on Wednesday said that this length compares to roughly 10 times the size of the Milky Way’s ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

We will never get an image of the Milky Way from above, but M81 or Bode's galaxy is a good stand-in – and now is a great time ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. The latest estimates suggest there are around one septillion stars, which is a 1 followed by 24 zeros. Our sun is a typical G-type ...

A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

For millennia, humans have asked whether we are alone in the universe, yet the discovery of aliens still eludes us. But if ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.