Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

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 ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

An exoplanet the size of Jupiter has long intrigued astronomers because of its scorching temperatures, screaming winds and sideways rain made of glass. Now, data from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

What if Kepler 22-b existed within our solar system? Experience life on a potentially habitable exoplanet in our own cosmic ...