Overlooked in the Kepler data and discovered by a citizen scientist, HD 137010 b is one of the most interesteing exoplanets ...

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A super-Earth basks in the glow of its star in this artist's impression. Is the world habitable ...

Scientists analyzing old data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet candidate that looks ...

Astronomers and philosophers have long speculated on the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars. In the 1990s the first of such objects, now called exoplanets, were discovered by astronomers.

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open-source ...

It's hard to remember now, but there was a long period of time in which scientists weren't sure how many planets might actually exist throughout the galaxy, much less how likely it might be to find a ...

A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable thing is, ...