In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

A potential record-breaking exoplanet system, traveling at 1.2M mph, may be the first of its kind ever identified.

Astronomers have found an incredibly rare complete 'Einstein ring' - predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

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

Revolutionary technique allows astronomers to capture incredibly high-resolution images of distant galaxies and supermassive black holes.

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These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 ...

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 may have discovered the fastest-moving planet system ever found, moving through our galaxy at speeds of at least ...

NASA's Pandora satellite mission to document at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars will start from SpaceX at its ...

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