Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

How can high school contribute to finding exoplanets? The answer is easy and effective, as a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal announced the confirmation of exoplanet TIC 139270665 b ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

"Life can be understood as complexity, and water has a wide range of properties that enable this complexity." Scientists have developed a better model to understand "steam worlds," which are planets ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy that is a "cosmic fossil" which has remained "frozen in time" for billions of years. Just as dinosaur fossils here on Earth are used to probe the evolution ...

A new discovery courtesy of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory could point the way to yet another exoplanet, but this one is a bit more distant. If confirmed, this would be the very first exoplanet ...