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

In the past three decades astronomers have discovered more than 6000 exoplanets – planets that orbit stars other than the Sun ...

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 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major leap in space exploration and the search for life beyond Earth.

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

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

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two rocky exoplanets orbiting a nearby K-type star, known as TOI-2322. The newfound alien worlds are comparable ...

Large exoplanets are more easily detected than small ones. It's axiomatic. While large planets block out more starlight during transits, small planets block out much less, letting them hide in the ...