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

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

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with Earth, according to the United States Geological Survey. Small asteroids ...

From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...

Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...

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Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

NASA's Pandora satellite mission to document at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars will start from SpaceX at its ...

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

These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second. There is another star that is almost as ...