A lot has changed in exoplanet research in the 30 years since the first exoplanets were detected 1.Thousands of planets have now been catalogued, sporting a huge range of characteristics that show ...

The James Webb Space Telescope investigated a giant planet, K2-18b, that could be an ocean world, according to NASA. The exoplanet lies 120 light-years away from Earth.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered evidence of a possible ocean world larger than Earth with conditions that have the potential to support life.. The exoplanet known as K2-18 b was ...

In 2023, scientists made some pretty smashing exoplanet discoveries. Here are the highlights. This year saw planetary scientists add a number of exciting new worlds to our growing 5,000+ catalog ...

This is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around its host stars, a pair of brown dwarfs. The newly discovered planet has a polar orbit, which is ...

NASA says exoplanet K2-18 b could be a “Hycean” planet, as the Webb telescope helped detect methane and carbon dioxide there, though it is unclear if it could support life.

Tracking exoplanets via orbital mechanics isn't easy. Plenty of variables could affect how a planet moves around its star, and determining which ones affect any given exoplanet requires a lot of ...

There are also suggestions that the exoplanet’s atmosphere may share similar traits to our own, such as the presence of nitrogen. “Our initial reconnaissance of LHS 1140 b with JWST has ...

The CHEOPS exoplanet hunter has found a distant world so hot that it has clouds of metal making it the most reflective planet ever seen.