In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...

"Abnormal, chaotic and strange" are just a few adjectives astronomers are using to describe a perplexing planetary system 60 light-years from Earth. And for one of the two exoplanets orbiting the ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

NASA announced a new milestone in its search of the stars. It has now found more than 5,000 exoplanets -- those outside of our solar system. “It’s not just a number,” Jessie Christiansen, a researcher ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

Discovered in 2011 by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, TrEs-2b absorbs 99% of the light it is struck with and reflects only 1%, ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

In a first, a pair of unusual stars has been revealed to have an equally unusual companion – an exoplanet that orbits them perpendicularly. Astronomers may think they know what is normal for stars and ...

Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds. The total will rise even quicker as next-generation telescopes take flight.

The year 2025 marked significant advancements in exoplanet science, revealing new discoveries and fresh perspectives on known worlds.