In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

A lonely world the size of Saturn is drifting through the Milky Way with no star to warm it, and for the first time ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This Saturn-sized rogue planet was discovered by an international team of scientists using ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

A monstrous galaxy named Inkathazo with plasma jets 32 times larger than the Milky Way has been discovered, challenging ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...