Astronomers may have discovered the fastest-moving planet system ever found, moving through our galaxy at speeds of at least ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, ...

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

Astronomers have found an incredibly rare complete 'Einstein ring' - predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system, nearly ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

At the time of writing, the planets Alathfar XI and Propus are sites where the Illuminate is "generating dark energy, which ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

The search for life beyond Earth is accelerating, with new telescopes, spacecraft, and missions exploring the universe for ...