Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...
Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.
"They are everywhere!" A terrifying finding made in a solar system void. The discovery of a record-mass stellar black hole in our galaxy.
The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...
Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...
Scientists also discovered a second planet, a brown dwarf orbiting another low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, around 134 light-years away from Earth.
By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new giant "planet," plus a new brown dwarf.
An artist's impression of the exoplanet Gaia-4b orbiting its star, tracing the shape of its orbit. | Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC/M. Marcussen. One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting a ...
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was going through preliminary tests in September 2023 when it captured ...
A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...