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

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

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

NASA has officially tracked 6,000 confirmed exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—a milestone that reflects decades of cumulative discoveries and ongoing research efforts. This achievement, ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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