NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

A team of researchers in England has introduced a new three-parameter metric that will effectively assess the habitability of exoplanets.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made a groundbreaking discovery on exoplanet K2-18b. Scientists say they may have detected signs of life in its atmosphere. This could change how we see the universe ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

As of July 2025, TESS had a list of 7655 exoplanet candidates of which just over 600 have been confirmed. "We really need the whole community working together if we want to maximize our investments in ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young sun-like star known as TOI-6109. The newfound alien worlds are slightly larger ...

The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said. There is huge variety across these distant worlds, the space agency says, with ...

"Water on planets is much more limited than previously believed." Sub-Neptune planets, often billed as possible "water worlds," may be more desert than deep sea, according to a new study. For years, ...

By Dean Murray A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet inside a ring. The planet, named WISPIT 2b, is outside our Solar System and ...