Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard's stars is the closest single star to Earth. Credit: ESO 77 indicted as ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...