Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...

While you’re at it, you might want to add a reminder for February 15, as the Moon and Mars will be visible close together in the evening sky, with Mars appearing as a reddish "star" near the Moon.

Around the galaxy exist stars that have been given a push, and orbit much faster than the vast majority of their stellar ...

NASA scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could change how we understand the dynamics of exoplanetary systems ...

Chocoholics are going bananas over the return of a much-loved Cadbury treat from New Zealand, priced at just £1, but some ...

NASA Scientists discover a fast-moving star and planetary system moving double our solar system speed through the Milky Way. Read more: ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.

ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

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.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.