The so-called "hypervelocity" star is traveling at 1.4 million mph (2.3 million km/h) relative to our solar system, about three times faster than a typical star, a new study reports. The star lies ...

Tech The Hypervelocity Star That’s Being Booted from the Galaxy Runaway Star Every 100,000 years, a hypervelocity star gets “kicked out” of the Universe—and it’s happening right now.

Hypervelocity impacts, characterised by projectile speeds exceeding several kilometres per second, pose critical challenges for aerospace and defence engineering. The dynamic processes involved ...

Hypervelocity Impact: A collision event occurring at velocities typically exceeding several kilometres per second, where the impact energy is sufficient to cause significant material ablation and ...

A hidden monster black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud fired runaway stars at the Milky Way at millions of miles per hour.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has been exploring space near the Sun and observing Venus for several years. The probe launched on August 12, 2018, and… ...

A team of astronomers from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany have detected the first hypervelocity binary star. The system, called PB3877 (or J1211), has a hot compact star and a ...

Scientists discover group of 'hypervelocity' stars travelling so fast they could escape the Milky Way's gravitational clutches These sun-size stars are thought to be moving at over a million mph ...

A University of Utah-led team discovered a “hypervelocity star” that is the closest, second brightest, and among the largest of 20 found so far. Speeding at more than 1 million mph (1.6 ...

Astronomers have discovered a "hypervelocity star" that is the closest, second-brightest and among the largest of 20 found so far. Speeding at more than 1 million mph, the star may provide clues ...

Hypervelocity HIFiRE missile tests at Woomera counter ‘future threats’ AUSTRALIA has quietly concluded a set of test flights of a missile capable of burning through the skies at 10,000km/h ...