Gaia data reveals signs of planets forming around young stars by measuring stellar motion, identifying planetary, brown dwarf, and stellar companions in early star systems ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European Southern ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Astronomers have finally pinned down the mass and distance of a lonely world that drifts through the galaxy without a parent ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects â the most detailed ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VISTA ...

Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet drifting alone through the Milky Way, detected briefly by bent starlight, ...

Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

The existence of the planet, named AT2021uey b, took years to verify. Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low ...