In a new study, scientists discover that white dwarf stars have greater potential to host habitable planets than previously ...

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

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes ...

Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared ...

The star is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila.

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

No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

Earth is the only planet in the known universe that has the right combination of water, atmosphere, temperature, and chemical ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...

Speaking of galaxies like the Milky Way, that wonderful implement known as the James Webb Space Telescope has found another ...