Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an internation | Space ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Scientists at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad have made a significant discovery, identifying a new ...

The planetary system is thought to move at least 1.2 million miles per hour. The post Astronomers discover fastest-moving ...

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of exoplanet HD 20794 d, which potentially could support life ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...