In the crowded, turbulent heart of the Milky Way, scientists have picked out a fragile pattern of atoms that could help ...

Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a rare prize: a world almost the size of Earth, circling a Sun-like star at a ...

Scientists report the first confirmed detection of thiepine, a complex sulfur-bearing molecule, in an interstellar cloud near the Milky Way’s center.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Scientists have created the sharpest map yet of dark matter, offering new insight into the invisible force that holds galaxies together.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, the world's biggest dark matter map has been released by NASA and shows an ...

Cold cosmic dust grains can link amino acids into protein‑like chains in deep space, suggesting life’s chemistry may begin ...

Though Earth Must Die is pleasantly compact—I finished in just shy of eight hours—it's full of conundrums, and while it might ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the department of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the Universe, showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets.