The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

How can Uranus teach us about exoplanets? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) hopes to ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...

Exoplanets come up a lot these days, usually in headlines about distant stars, strange atmospheres, or the possibility of ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets within the system can also be seen. - International Gemini ...

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds. The total will rise even quicker as next-generation telescopes take flight.

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...

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