In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together through the ...

"That would mean the rogue planet and exomoon model is favored." Moving beyond this system, this team and other scientists will now attempt to discover more planets associated with hypervelocity ...

"It will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star." Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its ...

Picture perfect: the exhibition shares the stories of 10 scientists to highlight Ukraine’s lost scientific potential due to Russia’s aggression towards the country (courtesy: Science at Risk) A new ...

If future observations show the star does not move, "that would mean the rogue planet and exomoon model is favored," study co-author Aparna Bhattacharya, a research scientist at the University of ...

"That would mean the rogue planet and exomoon model is favored," explains astrophysicist Aparna Bhattacharya from the University of Maryland and NASA Goddard. The study was published in The ...

If the pair was a rogue exoplanet and an exomoon, they’d be effectively invisible — dark objects lost in the inky void of space. The researchers found a strong suspect located about 24,000 ...