The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — ...

A University of Arizona-led team discovered a growing planet, WISPIT 2b, forming inside a disk gap around a young star. The finding confirms theories that protoplanets carve out gaps in disks of gas ...

A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

Austin (KXAN) — A tiny baby planet is making waves in the science community. Named WISPIT 2b, the growing planet is the first planet of its kind to be basically photographed growing inside its star’s ...

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 ...

The Milky Way just got a lot more crowded — with planets. NASA on Tuesday announced 1,284 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, called exoplanets. That's on top of the approximately ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Laird Close has discovered a growing planet outside our solar system, marking the first time such a find has been made in a ...