An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the study of exoplanets, worlds beyond the solar system.

NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter has found the fastest-disintegrating planet ever. Losing a moons-worth of matter every million ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995, Sara Seager and Dave Charbonneau were graduate students at Harvard. Both were studying topics totally unrelated to planets orbiting distant stars.

Direct imaging is another important method of finding exoplanets relatively close to Earth. For example, in October 2013, scientists using the Pan-STARRS terrestrial telescope detected PSO J318.5 ...

But only a handful of the exoplanets discovered so far are terrestrial, rocky types like Earth, and very few are in their stars’ habitable zones. For instance, three of the smallest rocky exopla ...

These changing environments will have a direct impact on the nature of these exoplanets. The most common size of world is one we do not have in our solar system, these planets have radii greater than ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope reveal GJ 1214 b, a unique exoplanet with a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere, ...

Among potentially habitable terrestrial planets currently known ... while scientists checked their initial discovery of another exoplanet around the same star, called LP 890-9/TOI-4306/SPECULOOS ...

Her specialty is exoplanets, namely all the planets in ... suggest it stems from neither a natural source nor some quotidian terrestrial one—a satellite, a plane, somebody’s key fob—the ...