Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

It may be made from a former star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

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

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

SpaceX is set to launch NASA's Pandora exoplanet-studying satellite on January 11, 2026, using a Falcon 9 rocket from ...

SpaceX launched NASA's Pandora exoplanet mission and about three dozen other payloads early Sunday morning (Jan. 11) on a ...

The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open ...

The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...