By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...

Early sci-fi exoplanets were often simple Earth-like worlds, but as science advanced, so did their realism. From the desert planet Arrakis in Dune to the bizarre gas giant moons in Avatar, fictional ...

Scientists also discovered a second planet, a brown dwarf orbiting another low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, ...

The search for life beyond Earth is accelerating, with new telescopes, spacecraft, and missions exploring the universe for ...