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

Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

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

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

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

Astronomers have recently detected potential signs of microbial life on the exoplanet K2-18b, an ocean-covered world located ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

Researchers present strong evidence for a planet circling two brown dwarfs on a near polar path. The orbit is tilted almost ...

A team of international astronomers, led by Turkish doctoral student Selçuk Yalçınkaya, has unveiled four new exoplanets – ...

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...