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

Astronomers have now confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, marking a significant milestone in humanity’s quest to understand planetary systems beyond our own. According to Space.com, ...

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

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

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

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 ...

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Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...