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

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible.

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

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Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

Exoplanets like HD 189733b, Tres-2b, and TOI-849b display extreme conditions from glass rain to near-total darkness, offering ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

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NASA said 40 new exoplanets have been discovered, bringing the known total to 4,512. The space agency's Exoplanet Exploration Program announced the new planets in a tweet on Monday. The vast majority ...