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

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

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

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

With this answer comes more of an idea about where planets are likely to form in our galaxy. They have found that stars with high-mass planets have higher metallicity than those with lower amounts ...

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 ...

Stars that currently live in the galaxy’s thick disk were born ... but he thinks the conclusion holds for larger planets, too. “If our theory is correct, and these disks really didn’t ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

The planets are gearing up for an even rarer planetary ... Stargazers will have the chance to see the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbour 2.5million light-years away, in all its ...