After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Astronomers have now confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, marking a significant milestone in humanity’s quest to understand planetary systems beyond our own. According to Space.com, ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

New research suggests that planets outside our solar system contain far less surface water than scientists once believed.

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

By fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency's ...

An instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our solar system by harnessing the power ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...