Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

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.

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

NASA has finally confirmed the existence of a new exoplanet that is 50 per cent larger than Jupiter and about a tenth of the ...

Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA's EXCITE mission. As a scientist ...

This artist's concept visualizes a super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

An international team with Swiss participation has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring in a nearby galaxy.

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

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

From his backyard in Arizona, astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured stunning photos of the celestial objects high ...

They occur with the Esf (nighttime)/Esl (daytime) Es in the background, typical Esb layers caused by the ... of 9.8% over Santa Maria (with no distinction between geomagnetically quiet and disturbed ...