As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth. The ...

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

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

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

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.

Imagine a distant world, light-years away, where intelligent beings scan the cosmos, searching for hints of life. If their ...

Germany's Atmos Space Cargo announced today (Feb. 5) that its first Phoenix reentry capsule will fly on SpaceX 's Bandwagon 3 rideshare mission. A Falcon 9 rocket will launch Bandwagon 3 no earlier ...

Witness a rare celestial spectacle as seven planets align in the night sky for one night in late February, offering a ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...