Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery. Astronomers have since found more than 6,000 exoplanets, plus hints of thousands more. Many were detected by NASA’s Kepler and Transiting Exoplanet ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of over 6,100 planets beyond the Solar System in the Milky Way. Something that has ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Astronomers have now confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, marking a significant milestone in humanity’s ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the one orbiting Earth could potentially form. Using data from NASA’s James ...

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