The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

NASA's most powerful telescope has once again left scientists scratching their heads after challenging their understanding of ...

Now, a separate group of researchers has announced that a greater number of our Milky Way galaxy ... across our galaxy. A research team had previously found that as many as seven Earth-sized ...

With Webb’s infrared eyes, astronomers can now probe rocky worlds the size of Earth. That capability sets the stage ... With ten billion of these stars scattered through our Milky Way galaxy, even a ...

The peer-reviewed report in the Astrophysical Journal Letters presents more questions than answers, acknowledges numerous ...

Advert Even our Sun is eight light minutes away, meaning it could pop out of existence and we on Earth ... The Milky Way galaxy, our home, has a long-lost twin (MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY ...

The team from Cambridge University has detected signs of molecules while studying the atmosphere of the planet K2-18b, some 124 light years away from Earth ... JWST also detected a galaxy forming that ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size ... Its light has travelled 12.8 billion years to reach Earth. That means we are seeing the galaxy as it was only ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...