Moons orbiting free-floating planets, planets drifting through space without a parent star, might seem like unlikely candidates for life. However, a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe works, a telescope captures something that doesn’t fit any existing theory.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity ...