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

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

As you can see, Earth's rotation is relatively slow, whereas the Milky Way is barreling through space, traveling 600 kilometers (373 miles) every second. Normally, O'Donoghue said, people portray ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Right now, the Roadster is traveling through space at thousands of kilometers per ... Sadly, it's too small and too far away to see in the night sky, even with the aid of a telescope.

A rogue, hyper-speed object — over 27,306 times the size of Earth — is hurtling so fast through our galaxy that ... to spot the celestial body, the US space agency confirmed this week.