Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

Exoplanet: A planet that orbits a star outside ... Caustic event: A specific type of microlensing event where the light curve shows sharp features due to the presence of a planet, indicating ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new exoplanet orbiting a bright late F-type star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-6038 A b, is about six times larger and ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars’ intense heat. Both are ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the atmospheric origin of exoplanet GJ 1214 b and its results challenges ...

Most known exoplanets were located using the transit method, which utilises space telescopes to observe a star over a period of time and generate a photometric light curve. If an exoplanet is present, ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Known as exoplanets, these make Neptune seem close indeed. The closest exoplanet – called Proxima Centauri b – is four light years away, or 24 trillion miles. NASA helpfully explains that if we were ...