A fast-moving star, possibly with an exoplanet, has been detected in the Milky Way, challenging current astrophysical models.

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.

This image of the Andromeda Galaxy, captured by the Herschel Space Observatory, reveals a detailed view of cool lanes of star formation.

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.

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after assessing almost 4,000 such events captured in detail by a next-gen ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

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

NASA's SPHEREx mission will survey the Milky Way galaxy looking for water ice and other key ingredients for life. In the ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the galaxy and take stock.

Space scientists have unveiled a cosmic bouquet in time for Valentine's Day. The new image includes data from several ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new details of the Cartwheel Galaxy, uncovering insights into star formation and its central black hole. This vibrant portrait of our Milky Way ...