The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

Researchers discovered a radio jet that is twice as wide as the Milky Way galaxy and was formed when the universe was 1.2 billion years old. NOIRLab Scientists have discovered a twin-lobed radio ...

A Milky Way-surveying spacecraft found a planet 12 times more massive than Jupiter, along with a brown dwarf, each distantly orbiting stars smaller than the sun. Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, ...

airy giant orbiting a distant star in our Milky Way. Their findings could help unlock the mystery of how these oversized, ultra-light planets come into existence. Dubbed WASP-193b, this newly ...

Light pollution is increasing globally, and having a negative impact on wildlife and humans. But the solutions are ...

I began photographing the Milky Way around ... was only discovered in 2019. Credit: Carl Burton Hubble’s SWEEPS (or Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search) looked for exoplanets ...

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Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter ... located some 880 light-years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Attached to the telescope was an instrument called the ...

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

From planets and constellations, to eclipses and the Aurora Borealis, here's what to look for in the sky this spring ...