The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of ... stellar-mass black holes and six free-floating "rogue planets," that aren't orbiting parent stars.

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many planets. At 1.5 billion objects, the map represents only a small slice of the galaxy.

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever ... Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of ... year history offers a long time for shedding worlds into the Milky Way. But there very well could be galactic nomads wandering in ...