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

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...

Although it encompasses some of winter’s darkest nights, February spurs daydreams of lighter days ahead. In just a matter of ...

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

It sometimes feels like just hours after you buy berries at the grocery store, you go to open the container and there's ...

February kicks off what astronomers call “galaxy season” in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year offers the best ...