The Milky Way is not the serene, flat disc that textbook illustrations suggest. Astronomers have confirmed that the outer ...

A student at New Mexico State University is showing how you can use pretty much anything to create something. Saul Hernandez ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

That distinction, survival versus livability, is the hard truth behind headlines about stars consuming planets. A world does not need to be swallowed to become uninhabitable. Long before any terminal ...

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Many birds are headed back to San Diego for spring and summer, and the Milky Way can be seen from the night sky starting this ...

An inside-out planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is turning everything that astronomers know about planet formation upside down.

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Typically, from what astronomers have gathered thus far, star systems follow a tidy logic: small, rocky worlds huddle close to the warmth of their star, while massive gas giants bloat up in the colder ...