Astronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a ...

With an image from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA finds clues outside the solar system that explain crystals born in ...

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

HD 137010 b is an exciting discovery made possible by the data collected from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which was retired in 2018 but continues to yield fascinating results. This planet is ...

A layer of molten rock deep inside some rocky planets may be doing more than shaping their interiors. New research points to ...

Scientists have combined satellite data with the physics of ice flow analysis to create a map of Antarctica's hidden ...

New James Webb Space Telescope data suggests the strongest evidence yet of possible biological activity on exoplanet K2-18b, ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to flesh out our understanding of the exoplanet population. The second was to ...

Daniel Apai is a professor of astronomy, planetary sciences and optical science at the University of Arizona. He receives funding from NASA. Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit them. These stars are known for their prolific and energetic flaring, and ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...

This year, the number of NASA-tracked confirmed worlds discovered beyond our solar system surpassed 6,000, and several thousand more await confirmation. The growing tally reflects how dramatically ...