But they actually do exist in real life. Astronomers, who sometimes like to kill fun, call these worlds free-floating planets ... light of a background star in a measurable way.

He had discovered these objects while working at the Mount Wilson observatory near Pasadena, California, including in images ... the Milky Way. Andromeda was therefore a separate galaxy ...

It's explored our own solar system, studied the atmospheres of distant planets ... our Milky Way today and more) that formed in the first 700 million years of cosmic history. Our current galaxy ...

A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object (located within our Milky Way) with a face-on spiral galaxy in the distant ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

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

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

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...