"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

Abundance of Earth-like Exoplanets The universe has no shortage of similarities to Earth when it comes to celestial ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. There are likely many more exoplanets with liquid water than previously thought, according to a new science paper published today.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two sub-Neptune exoplanets orbiting a subgiant star known as TOI-6054. The newfound alien ...

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...

Scientists are examining its massive dust trails, offering rare insights into the composition of terrestrial exoplanets. Researchers from MIT... Astronomers have detected water and carbon dioxide ...