The study of planets beyond the solar system has reached an unprecedented milestone, with over 5,700 confirmed exoplanets.

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

February's full moon rises this week and will be accompanied by a planetary parade.The second full moon of winter, also known ...

These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second. There is another star that is almost as ...

Five of the brightest planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, can be seen even from urban areas with mild ...

The driest place on Earth is the best place to observe the universe, with darkness offering dazzling spectacles of cosmic ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

While Astronomics does fall into the "job as game" category, it's a good job that starts off fairly basic and expands as it goes.

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...