For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected a "high-energy neutrino emission from within the Milky Way," according to AAAS.

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all ... MORE: Binary star system found near the Milky Way's black hole: An 'amazing' discovery, astrophysicists say There are currently several ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...