An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before. The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Luck has recently led to the discovery of several individual stars in extremely distant galaxies. 44 in a single galaxy ... of light years away is a fairly new development. Until now, however ...

PBS News Hour delivers ... Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new ... found to be comparable to that of the Milky Way, which is relatively high for a galaxy ...

The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery ... history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...