Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

Some stars in our galaxy, known as hypervelocity stars, move much faster than most other stars in the Milky Way. In fact, they are traveling so fast that our galaxy's gravity can't hold onto them and ...

Earlier this year FQTQ reported on real-life shooting stars, and recently a new shooting star has been found! Real shooting stars are sun-like objects, varying in size, traveling at astronomical ...

Hypervelocity stars, first theorized to exist in 1988 and discovered in 2005, are already extremely rare, which makes this new discovery “particularly exciting,” he said. Volunteers participating in a ...

All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly challenging. For example, there has been a debate among astronomers for decades ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the Milky Way galaxy, such as its gravitational potential and the distribution of ...

(CNN) — An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the gravity of the galaxy and reach intergalactic space, new research has found.

How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers confirmed the ...

Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens in a new window) Share on Hacker News (opens in a new window) Share on Flipboard (opens in a new ...

But low-mass stars are harder to detect because they are cooler and less luminous. Hypervelocity stars, first theorized to exist in 1988 and discovered in 2005, are already extremely rare, which makes ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An object spotted ...