Three years later came news of the first known exoplanet, a Jupiter-like gas giant orbiting its star closer than Mercury circles our sun. That world was detected around the sunlike star 51 Pegasi ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two ...

This will effectively double the number of known exoplanets. Scientists hope to identify new planetary systems that might support life and deepen our understanding of planetary diversity.

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...

An exoplanet is a planet from a different star system. Most known exoplanets orbit stars within the Milky Way, but with the help of powerful space telescopes, scientists have discovered exoplanets ...

The hunt for aliens goes hand in hand with the hunt for habitable planets. Astronomers are on the hunt for exoplanets with ...

This small orbiting observatory is aimed at studying around 20 known exoplanets, collecting atmospheric data that could help interpret results from more advanced telescopes like Webb. When an ...

The planet in question, known ... the number of details already presented in this image compared to past observations is shocking. Additionally, part of what made studying this exoplanet and ...

“The Kepler space telescope really revolutionized the number of exoplanets that we ... Take, for example, the nearest known exoplanet, Proxima Centauri B, which is about four light years away ...