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

How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an internation | Space ...

A star flying through the night sky may be the fastest-moving solar system in our galaxy. Possibly a planet a little larger than Neptune orbiting a small star, the system could be moving at least 1.2 ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

Because this planet is relatively close to Earth and orbits a bright star, it is a perfect target for future telescopes.

Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.

A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

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

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