For decades, the search for alien life has revolved around a narrow ring around stars where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. That “habitable zone” remains important, but astronomers are ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

Join the search for exoplanets beyond our solar system and discover what they teach us about Earth Over the past 30 years, we have discovered thousands of exoplanets, which are planets located outside ...

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

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

How can astronomers develop better methods for blocking the intense starlight of an exoplanetary system and reveal the exoplanets hiding underneath the glare? This is what a recent study published in ...

Our understanding of exoplanets, those strange worlds that orbit stars beyond our solar system, is now broader and deeper thanks to separate studies published this week featuring the work of ...

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As exoplanets continue to be discovered on a regular basis, how do these worlds compare to the planets in our solar system? This is what a new catalog published today in The Astrophysical Journal ...