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

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star ... we confirmed our first planet and our first brown dwarf." Combining astrometric and radial velocity data allows astronomers to find all the orbital details ...

Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' festival from Feb. 13-17.

Astronomers have detected a relatively close exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are ...

An extreme case of centrifugal force’s impact can be seen with Haumea, a dwarf planet in ... meets the surface of the planet. The time it takes for a planet to spin all the way around once ...

It's a six-planet parade ... system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of seven planets total. However, they are not always in the same ...

Timing: Dusk after sunset, but before 9 p.m. local time There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto ... but rather scattered all around the solar system at varying ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

The planetary parade In January and February, six planets ... “The white dwarf is accumulating a layer of hydrogen, and when there’s enough of that hydrogen, it explodes all at once, just ...

This was nicely illustrated in the Star Wars movie trilogy where Luke Skywalker watched two suns set on the horizon as seen from his home planet ... 5 solar masses. This is evidence that the white ...