A fast-moving star, possibly with an exoplanet, has been detected in the Milky Way, challenging current astrophysical models.

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

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...

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

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

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

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

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

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...