The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way — the ...

From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA ...

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable exoplanets ever discovered ranked through their similarity to Earth.

The Milky Way belongs to this class, as well as our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Globular clusters are often mentioned in the same breath as galaxies, so they deserve a nod.

However, when examining a still-developing exoplanet in a distant star system, a team of astronomers uncovered a mismatch between the gases in the planet’s atmosphere and those within the disk.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket may come into its own in 2025. That vision may become clearer over the next 12 months or so, for Starship appears poised to make a big leap in 2025. Starship has ...

They need only make a trip to Joliet. The Joliet Public Library recently opened an exhibit called Discover Exoplanets: The Search for Alien Worlds to its downtown Ottawa Street Branch. The Joliet ...

The past decades have witnessed tremendous technological developments, ranging from the launching of probes to other planets, the discovery of exoplanets in the "habitable zone," to the ...