They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...
The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European Southern ...
Gaia data reveals signs of planets forming around young stars by measuring stellar motion, identifying planetary, brown dwarf, and stellar companions in early star systems ...
Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...
Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet drifting alone through the Milky Way, detected briefly by bent starlight, ...
Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...
Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...
Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...
The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...
A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...