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.

Astronomers at NASA have caught a glimpse of a star system whipping through space at an unprecedented speed. While the system ...

“If so, it will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star.” What new discoveries about speedy exoplanetary systems will researchers make in the coming years and decades? Only time ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

"If so, it will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star." A hypervelocity star is an ultra-fast star that researchers believe has brushed past the supermassive black hole at ...

Using in part the NEID spectrograph mounted on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak ...

These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 ...

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

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...

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