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

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.

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

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

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

For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...

Astrophysicists Reveal Structure of 74 Exocomet Belts Orbiting Nearby Stars in Landmark Survey ... of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle ...

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.