A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.

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

An exoplanet called WASP-69 just earned some bragging rights with its gigantic tail, stretching longer than 40 Earths. The long structure, which is made up of gas leaking from the exoplanet's ...

These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...

"The rate at which the planet is evaporating is utterly cataclysmic, and we are incredibly lucky to be witnessing the final hours of this dying planet." Using NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

To help, you’ll have to master the same techniques scientists use to find and characterize exoplanets – worlds orbiting faraway stars.

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...

Although exoplanet science is on firm ground now ... census and give us a reasonably complete picture of where planets live in our galaxy,” Gaudi says. It will also provide clues about how ...

"Its luminosity and proximity make it an ideal candidate for future telescopes whose mission will be to observe the atmospheres of exoplanets directly," said Xavier Dumusque of the University of ...

NASA’s Pandora mission nears launch, aiming to analyze exoplanet atmospheres for habitability clues. Using infrared ...