Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

TESS launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2018 to study exoplanets that transit their star from our perspective, meaning they ...

Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the ...

When it launches, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be tuned to the frequency needed to measure oscillations on over ...

Scientists have detected the first direct evidence of a coronal mass ejection from a star beyond our Sun, specifically the M dwarf StKM1-1262. This ma ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...