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

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...

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 ...

For decades, the question of whether life exists beyond Earth has been more speculation than science. Now, powerful ...

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 ...

Exoplanets like HD 189733b, Tres-2b, and TOI-849b display extreme conditions from glass rain to near-total darkness, offering insight into the diversity of planets beyond our solar system.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...