Explore NGC 6946, the Fireworks Galaxy—an active starburst galaxy on the Cepheus-Cygnus border known for its high rate of ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

Experts at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a 'Super-Earth' among the stars known as Kepler-725c, which ...

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: Two galaxy ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet called TOI-6894b, orbiting a star that should be far too small to have formed it.

Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets.

The quest to discover definitively whether life could have been sustained elsewhere in the universe has been intensifying since the first planet outside our solar system was found in 1992.