The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

NASA's TESS telescope has discovered an intriguing exoplanet, TOI-1453 c, located 250 light-years away, with an unusually low ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Hycean planets, theoretical exoplanets with deep oceans and thick hydrogen atmospheres, could be key targets for detecting ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...

The ESA has finally shut down Gaia, its mind-blowing space mission to map the Milky Way. Despite its retirement, Gaia is far ...

Key takeawaysPlanets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on after a decade revealing the secrets of the ...

Originally named Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, Gaia was conceived with the aim of mapping the cosmos, ...