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

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

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

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

Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...