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

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

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

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

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

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

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

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

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

Finding evidence of life in the cosmos is the “holy grail” of exoplanet science, one of the scientists said, but there is ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...