Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

As civilizations advance, they may need to migrate across the galaxy, and some researchers speculate they could use their own stars as massive engines. New research explores the possibility of a ...

What’s lurking beneath the waters of a boat marina? We went magnet fishing to find out, and the results were unbelievable. From old weapons to historic artifacts, this was one of our wildest ...

This is the adorable moment a beluga whale teases a boy at the aquarium in Beijing, China, blowing bubbles and swimming in ...

Captured by Webb in 2022, "this and other images of spiral galaxies help scientists investigate the star formation cycle in galaxies ... on the stamp are brown dwarfs, objects that are too small ...

One of them, Europa, is perhaps one of the few places we might find life ... stars. All of those stars are part of an even larger cluster called the Orion Molecular Cloud. In addition to all these ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

The brown dwarf, not quite a planet or a star, is Gaia-5b. Respectively, they are 244 and 134 light-years away. "This discovery is an exciting tip-of-the-iceberg for the exoplanet discoveries we ...

Gaia-4b exerts a fierce gravitational pull on its star, an unremarkable orange K-class dwarf with just 64% the mass of our sun. As Gaia plotted the star's proper motion in the sky, it noticed that ...