Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

The Milky Way, the galaxy that houses our solar system, is an enormous and complex structure filled with mysteries, motion and magnificent phenomena. Despite being our galactic home, many of us know ...

Peking University, January 2, 2026: A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our ...