After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for DMS was weak at best, while other experts cautioned that sub-Neptunes may ...

W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s concept shows how they range in size and composition, although scientists ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets around a young ...

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...