Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s ...

This number is monitored by NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) located at the California Institute of Technology's IPAC. Currently, there are over 8,000 candidate planets awaiting ...

That could have not been the case; it could have been that the solar system was a weird fluke.” The first exoplanets were ...

NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 exoplanets. This milestone highlights the diversity of planetary systems.

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic ...

“This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes — exploration that has completely ...

Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit so close to their stars that their surfaces are shrouded in thick ...

the solar system's strangest object Ryan MacDonald at the University of St Andrews, UK, says TRAPPIST-1 caused a huge amount of excitement among astronomers after its discovery. However, subsequent ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it ...

American space agency NASA announced this week the counter showing the number of confirmed exoplanets has now reached over ...

Today, let’s talk about a super cool discovery in the field of astronomy! Recently, astronomers used microlensing to find the host star of the exoplanet Gaia22dkvLb, and the key point is that this ...