To date, over 5,500 exoplanets — planets that orbit stars other than the sun — have been discovered, and a large portion of those alien worlds have been observed via something called "the transit ...

In the past two and a half years, two next-generation telescopes have been sent to space: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the ESA’s Euclid Observatory. Before the decade is over, they ...

NASA technology discovered a “super-Earth” exoplanet emitting “strange signals.” Rating: Mostly True (About this rating?) What's True: Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet — but this time, the way they found it may be as significant as the discovery itself. Researchers used a breakthrough combination of indirect and direct ...

One of the biggest areas of research in astronomy right now is the discovery of exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. With over 5,000 exoplanets known and more being discovered every month, ...

An illustration of what it might look like to visit Kepler 16 b, a nearby exoplanet with twin suns. Credit: NASA Imagine a planet where molten diamond rains from the sky, hurled sideways by winds that ...

On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists announced the discovery of six new exoplanets, stretching that number to 5,502 ...