"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

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

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

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 ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

The telescope is a project of the European Southern Observatory intergovernmental research organisation and is under ...

The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...

By studying the Sun’s acoustic waves, scientists are uncovering its hidden dynamics, refining stellar models, and influencing ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

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