The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope made its public debut with a series of breathtaking images. Among them was an ethereal ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

Are you having trouble completing the Roundtrip 2.0 quest in Revenge of the Savage Planet? This guide is for you.

Hubble’s 35-year journey showcases humanity’s boldest space achievements, capturing everything from new stars forming to ...

explained that the work suggests that super-Earths exist in other areas of the galaxy. Advert "This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the ...

Every white dwarf cools for billions of years, granting any close‑in planet a stable light source for far longer than the Sun’s remaining lifespan. With ten billion of these stars scattered through ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a planet full of aliens was ever discovered? It's pretty mind-boggling to think just how vast the universe could be, and how much life could actually ...

Astronomers may have just stumbled across a ghost galaxy hiding in plain sight — a small, starless, fast-moving cloud of gas that checks all the boxes for what’s known as a “dark galaxy.” ...

British researchers have found the “strongest evidence yet” of alien life beyond our planet. While studying exoplanet K2-18b ... should basically confirm that life is very common in the galaxy,” he ...

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected ... it should basically confirm that life is very common in the galaxy." He told BBC Radio 5Live on Thursday ...