A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.
Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...
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NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...
Scientists have discovered a potentially record-breaking fast planetary system, with a star and possible exoplanet moving at ...
W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more massive than Jupiter.
A Neptune-sized exoplanet has been detected moving at a record-breaking 1.2M mph, led by a hypervelocity star.
In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...
NASA researchers have identified a potential exoplanet orbiting a hypervelocity star travelling at 1.2 million miles per hour ...