Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

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

At the time, those researchers hypothesized the objects were either a gas giant with an exomoon or a fast-moving ... “If so, it will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star.” What ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

A new study reveals that these missing pieces may not have been absent from the start but were instead lost during violent ...

The planet, dubbed TOI-6038A b, is a dense sub-Saturn size with a mass of 78.5 Earth masses and a radius of 6.41 Earth radii in a wide binary system.

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

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