Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

The first planet that was discovered around a star ... Unlike the sun, most stars in our galaxy have companions, with two or ...

The search for life beyond Earth is accelerating, with new telescopes, spacecraft, and missions exploring the universe for ...

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy ...