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

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien astronomers could also be scanning Earth.

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

Let’s take a look at how NASA discovered this planet, and why it’s special. An impression of how TOI-715b could look, orbiting around its red dwarf star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The search ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Just six light-years from the solar system — in cosmic terms, our ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Because red dwarfs are the most prevalent types of stars, astronomers have looked hard to find exoplanets around them. Astronomers have found some evidence for two planets in orbit around Wolf 359 ...

The planet, if it is indeed a planet ... Gaia-4b exerts a fierce gravitational pull on its star, an unremarkable orange K-class dwarf with just 64% the mass of our sun. As Gaia plotted the ...

Yet, by being so massive, Gaia-4b exerts a fierce gravitational pull on its star, an unremarkable orange ... by a brown dwarf — an object that straddles the line between planet and star ...