Astrophysicists have for the first time discovered a population of planets beyond the Milky Way gala...

The Gaia space probe, launched in 2013, has mapped more than a billion stars in the Milky Way, vastl...

Astronomers led by an Indian-origin scientist have discovered a monster black hole lurking inside on...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized 'diamond' about 900 light-years away in space, which is p...

Researchers have developed a new computation method to examine data from planets orbiting other star...

Scientists have discovered two new planets orbiting an ancient star near our Sun and one of them may...

Using more than 2 million images collected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have develo...

Scientists have for the first time precisely measured the rotation rate of nearby galaxy, the Large ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found compelling evidence that the supermassive black hole at t...