NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...
In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...
A tiny star is making big moves — whether its accomplice likes it or not. Astronomers have spotted a star just a fraction the ...
Astronomers have discovered a fast-moving star potentially carrying a planet across space at 1.2 million miles per hour, ...
A potential record-breaking exoplanet system, traveling at 1.2M mph, may be the first of its kind ever identified.
The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...
Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...
Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.
Barnard’s b was detected using the radial velocity method — a measurement of the host star’s wobble that can only exist if there’s a slight gravitational pull from one or more orbiting ...
Using in part the NEID spectrograph mounted on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab, a team of astronomers have ...