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

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

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

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

Astronomers are uncovering new insights into exoplanetary atmospheres, and a recent study on WASP-107 b has turned conventional models on their heads. This distant planet, with its incredibly low ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of diamond, and another may rain molten iron. However, not all exoplanets are ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way. A group of astronomers may have discovered a planetary system that races through ...

NASA is one step closer to scanning exoplanet atmospheres with the Pandora mission. This satellite is well on its way to completion, with NASA announcing the completion of the Pandora spacecraft bus.