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.

The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the age-old question remains unanswered: are w ...

If extraterrestrial civilizations exist with technology similar to ours, could they detect Earth? A team of SETI researchers ...

Their research reveals which Earthly 'technosignatures' would be easiest to detect from a planet across the galaxy.

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

What can Earth’s technosignatures—the potential signs of intelligence beyond Earth—teach us about finding technosignatures ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

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Earthquakes in Maine, while fairly common, are usually small and do little or no damage. According to the Maine Geological Survey, over the last 25 years, more than 150 earthquakes have been detected ...

Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space ...