In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

A POWERFUL telescope floating in space has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring of light around a nearby galaxy. The ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

Geomagnetic storms also cause problems on Earth. The electric currents they create can overload power plants and cause ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, in operation for a few months now, uncovered light coming from a ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday.

A galaxy in the distance, was tightly encircled by a halo of light—also known as an Einstein Ring, a result of gravitational ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...