The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is only the third to be found on the outskirts of our galaxy's dense central ...

An exciting new planet has been discovered by astronomers at the edge of our galaxy. Named AT2021uey b, the planet is described as Jupiter-sized and is located about 3,200 light-years from Earth.

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare lemon-shaped planet called PSR J2322-2650b orbiting a city-size star. Found using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the Jupiter-size world is stretched by extreme ...

For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — ...

In the past two decades, astronomers have discovered nearly 2,000 planets orbiting sun-like stars in the solar neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, and humanity is now a little bit closer to ...

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Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...