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Astronomers have captured a object that's traveling so fast — one million miles per hour — that it's projected to leave the Milky Way Galaxy.

Amateur Astronomers Spot an Object Hurtling by at 1 Million MPH

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

In a "serendipitous" turn of events, scientists inadvertently spotted an ultra-rare naked stellar core, the first for a star this massive.

Scientists Spot “Stripped, Pulsating Core” of Star Caused By Horrific Accident

By Frank Landymore

The European Space Agency (ESA) has discovered a planet shaped like a rugby ball due to the enormous tidal forces of its host star.

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Discovered a Planet That’s Not a Sphere

By Tony Ho Tran

Science & Energy

An Unusual Merger Seems to Have Created a New Type of Star

By Dan Robitzski

An ultrahot gas giant that's even darker than asphalt is going to crash into its star significantly sooner than scientists thought.

Science & Energy

A Super-Black Planet Is About to Literally Crash Into Its Star

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out what happened to Cassiopeia A, a star that had its outer layers blown away before it ultimately exploded in a supernova.

Science & Energy

Something Peeled an Entire Layer Off This Star Like a Giant Orange

By Dan Robitzski

When astronomers went to update their models for a giant, bright star, they instead found an empty space where it used to be.

Science & Energy

A Giant Star Appears to Have Winked Out of Existence

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers have discovered a strange star that oscillates only on one side, causing it to be distorted into a teardrop shape.

Scientists Discover “Peculiar” Teardrop-Shaped Star

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just traced the path of a runaway star, first spotted in the 80s, back to its original home and learned it got cast away by a black hole.

Science & Energy

A Runaway Star Is Escaping a Black Hole at 1.2 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a "forbidden planet" in an orbit previously thought to be impossible.

Astronomers Find Distant “Forbidden Planet” In “Neptunian Desert”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered a star in the Andromeda Galaxy that explodes every year — the first of its kind in the known universe.

Scientists Discovered a Star That Explodes Every Year

By Jon Christian

See What Astronomers Are Calling “The Last Breath of a Dying Star”

See What Astronomers Are Calling “The Last Breath of a Dying Star”

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, astronomers have discovered a coronal mass ejection (CME), a spewing of plasma and energy, from a star that's not the Earth's Sun.

Science & Energy

Scientists Observe a Star That Spews Plasma — And It’s Not Our Sun

By Kristin Houser

Young Star Discovered in the Milky Way And, Sadly, It’s All Alone

Young Star Discovered in the Milky Way And, Sadly, It’s All Alone

By Charmaine Caparas

Earth Will One Day Die, But We Could Survive By Moving Here

Earth Will One Day Die, But We Could Survive By Moving Here

By Jelor Gallego