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

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

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"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

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The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

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

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

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...