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

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

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

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

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

Our Solar System is simple—one star, planets orbiting around it. But what happens in a system with multiple stars? Scientists ...

Both the planet and brown dwarf are orbiting low-mass stars, a scenario thought to be extremely rare. Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge ...

The phenomenon of seeing familiar patterns in objects where none exists is called pareidolia. In terms of our evolution, it ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

Using in part the NEID spectrograph mounted on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak ...