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.

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

Is life as rare as we once believed? A new Penn State study suggests that intelligent life is more likely than previously ...

Its cosmic corsage tells a story of death and rebirth. Within a few million years — a blink of an eye in the universe’s life — the gas and dust will either become budding young stars and planetary ...

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

NASA frequently shares cosmic images, revealing intriguing details about star-forming regions, black holes, galaxies and ...

While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

The Largest 'Black Hole Jet' Discovered Is Estimated to Be Twice the Size of Our Milky Way We know black holes to be ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...