Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search for potential signs of life. The discovery of a potential “super-Earth” loca ...

Scientists discovered the first binary system, TOI-2267, using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS, revealing a unique planetary setup.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

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