Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

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

What: New JWST observations probe the possible atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 e, an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a ...

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

Can planets orbiting M dwarf stars become habitable, or does the star’s activity prevent it? This is what a recent study ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

Exoplanets like HD 189733b, Tres-2b, and TOI-849b display extreme conditions from glass rain to near-total darkness, offering ...

A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the ...

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 ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." ...