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

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

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Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter" — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this intriguing exoplanet, which is a world beyond our solar system. Using a powerful ...

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