Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new giant "planet," plus a new brown dwarf.

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

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

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 ...

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

Scientists also discovered a second planet, a brown dwarf orbiting another low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, around 134 light-years away from Earth.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Enaiposha orbits a red dwarf star 47 light years away ... Meanwhile, mini-Neptunes are planets with thick hydrogen and helium atmospheres and likely hide ocean oceans under their gas. Since most ...

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Gaia-4b is a planet orbiting the star called Gaia-4, around 244 light-years away. Gaia-4b is about twelve times more massive ...