Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

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Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our own, thanks to the observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

How can star populations help astronomers re-evaluate the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, also called ...

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

This video investigates whether dinosaurs could exist somewhere else in the universe. It breaks down the planetary conditions needed to support creatures as large and powerful as Earth’s prehistoric ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

On November 30, the near-Earth asteroid Eros will pass within 2 degrees of the Andromeda Galaxy's core, offering a rare ...

Stellaris has a new DLC pack available right now, as the Infernals Species Pack adds new options along with two new origins and more ...

Nemesis and the slow death of Star Trek: Enterprise, it seemed like Gene Roddenberry’s famous sci-fi franchise was as dead as ...