By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Scientists also discovered a second planet, a brown dwarf orbiting another low-mass star. Gaia-5b orbits the Gaia-5 star, ...

The exciting discovery just 20 light-years away from Earth could play a 'pivotal role' in the search for life on other ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWST team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...

NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

On Christmas Day 2024 researchers found a huge 196-foot space rock that has only 1 percent of a chance of hitting Earth.

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.