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

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

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

Scientists also discovered a second planet, a brown dwarf orbiting another low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, ...

Astronomers have discovered two objects that at first looked like a well-known stage in star formation, but also have features that don’t fit that at all. Their forthcoming paper announcing the ...

Object 1 is either about 6,500 light-years away – or 30,000 light-years, depending on different interpretations of measurements of its velocity, which is an uncomfortably wide variation. Object ...

Astronomers have discovered a fast-moving star potentially carrying a planet across space at 1.2 million miles per hour, ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

“When it’s brightest, Venus appears as an eerily eye-catching beacon,“ EarthSky wrote. ”Many mistake it for a UFO. It’s ...

Astronomers discover an unusual neutron star that emits double pulses, challenging theories about stellar remnants.

Scientists have found two unusual objects in deep space. One is so big it could fit 21 Jupiters inside but is neither a star nor a planet.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.