Exoplanets, by definition, exist outside our solar system, orbiting other stars. That means they’re pretty far away. Telescopes, even top-notch ones like Hubble, can’t image anything as small as a ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet — but this time, the way they found it may be as significant as the discovery itself. Researchers used a breakthrough combination of indirect and direct ...

Since the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1992, astronomers have been on the hunt for these alien worlds, finding thousands of them all over the cosmos. But there are some that — though they ...

The NEID instrument mounted on the 3.5-meter WIYN telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. The NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research (NN-EXPLORE) partnership funds NEID (short for ...

The way we look at exoplanets is changing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new method of studying alien planets might allow ...

It’s difficult to overstate the explosive pace of exoplanet discovery. Within the span of just a few decades, the concept of planets outside our solar system evolved from science fiction into a ...

Astronomers are on the hunt for alien life outside of our Solar System. More than 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered in recent years, but we don’t yet know if any of them have all the key ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

It could be the “best star by far” to look for exoplanets with atmospheres like our own, and there could even be three planets in orbit, which would make GJ 887—also called Gliese 887—one of the ...