LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...

Mathematical equations have shaped our understanding of the universe, and these nine have played a key role in changing the world.

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

Despite his gunshot wounds, sustained in Sweden's deadliest mass shooting, a man managed to video-call his fiancee to tell ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe. At double the width of our ...

Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...

Scientists also discovered a second planet, a brown dwarf orbiting another low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

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, ...