Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

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

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, but calling it a moon ... Grundy et al, 'The Formation of Charon's Red Poles From Seasonally Cold-Trapped Volatiles', Nature, 539, 65 ...