Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two sub-Neptune exoplanets orbiting a subgiant star known as TOI-6054. The newfound ...

The back-of-the-envelope math is compelling. There are likely over a trillion exoplanets in our Milky Way galaxy alone. So as far as we know, the universe must teem with super-Earths — and some ...

Astronomers are beginning to glimpse what exoplanets orbiting distant suns are actually like.

An exoplanet is a planet from a different star system. Most known exoplanets orbit stars within the Milky Way, but with the help of powerful space telescopes, scientists have discovered exoplanets ...

In 2018, exoplanet scientists feasted on data from a nearby ice ball, the first exoplanet baby picture, a majority-metal blob the size of Earth and the home planet of a "Star Trek" fan favorite ...

Mind-blowing NASA facts about exoplanetsExoplanet names may seem long and tricky, but they follow a system that helps scientists keep track of thousands of planets.

This post has been updated to include GU Psc b, a directly imaged exoplanet announced today. More information below. We know of more than 1,700 exoplanets. But most of these planets have been ...

Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra space telescope Exoplanets that cling too tightly to their stars trigger their own doom: 'This is a completely new phenomenon' ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

‘Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact’ Review: An Education in Exoplanets Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars.

The existence of the new, distant worlds hundreds of light years away has been confirmed, based on data from the retired Kepler space telescope.