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.

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 ...

The WASP-132 system contains a Hot Jupiter (in the foreground), an inner super-Earth (here transiting in front of the orange host star ... dwarf (a celestial body whose mass is between that of a ...

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of ... Common and easy to find Most super-Earths orbit cool dwarf stars, which are lower in mass and live much longer than the ...

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 ...