Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic physics. In 2025, astronomers did not just add new dots to the map, they ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...

SpaceX launched NASA's Pandora exoplanet mission and about three dozen other payloads early Sunday morning (Jan. 11) on a rideshare flight called "Twilight." ...

Irvine, Calif., July 14, 2025 — In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much larger than previously thought. It’s a finding ...

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, ...

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open ...

The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

CNN — Ten years after the Kepler Space Telescope launched and revolutionized exoplanet discovery, Kepler-1658 b has finally been confirmed as the first exoplanet that the mission ever detected. It's ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...