Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

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 ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

Light from the Dragon's home galaxy began journeying through space roughly 6.5 billion ... stumbled on the trove of stars while looking for a background gravitationally lensed galaxy in images ...

The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead ...

When that happens, the imprints they make in space are nearly the same at a wide variety of length scales. This is precisely what cosmologists observe in the cosmic microwave background ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Kristen McQuinn Most small galaxies that stopped making ...

Neutron stars are ancient remnants of stars that have reached the end of their evolutionary journey through space and time. These interesting objects are born from once-large stars that grew to ...