Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...

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With this answer comes more of an idea about where planets are likely to form in our galaxy. They have found that stars with high-mass planets have higher metallicity than those with lower amounts ...

Aimed at the nearby star PDS 70, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching newborn planets take shape before our eyes in ...

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together ...

How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in ... “If so, it will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star.” What new discoveries ...