The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

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.

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

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 ...

Move over Saturn! Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our Solar System to debunk the theory that only giant planets can be so adorned. The planet, dubbed Haumea ...

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 ...