A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

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 ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...

It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...