Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

At least 50 billion planets in our own Milky Way galaxy are likely to be free-floaters ... In dense clusters, encounters with other stars tend to make planetary systems unstable, says Portegies ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...

Carbon, the building block of life on Earth, owes its existence to the fiery crucibles of stars. Alongside elements like ...

That massively increases the chances of life existing elsewhere in the galaxy, say the authors ... Earth-like exoplanets (planets orbiting stars other than our sun) with oceans, lakes and ...

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy ... detection of planets close to ...