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

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

How many planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, exist throughout the Milky Way Galaxy? While that might never be determined, NASA recently announced the total number of confirmed ...

University of California, Irvine astronomers have identified an exoplanet located in a star's habitable zone, where ...

NASA is sending things up into the air on a fairly regular basis; what isn't so regular is when something it sends up comes ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

Temperatures on the planet could make water theoretically possible. Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, ...

(Nanowerk News) The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from ...