"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

Many planets featured in Star Trek TNG share traits that scientists now look for when identifying exoplanets: rocky terrain, ...

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

That first exoplanet proved to be the vanguard for an entire galaxy ... the concept of a universe in which we didn't know of other planetary systems might seem, pardon the pun, an alien one. Back in ...

The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...