NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop—but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a chicken could lay. That’s a little like how our team ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, literally and figuratively. This makes TOI-4465 b a rare case of a giant planet ...

FREWSBURG — Recently, a new discovery has been made in the astronomy world in the form of a new exoplanet, Wolf 327b, which orbits the nearby red dwarf star, Wolf 327. The discovery has local ...

How can Uranus teach us about exoplanets? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) hopes to ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...