At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

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Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds. The total will rise even quicker as next-generation telescopes take flight.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — A team of astronomers from New Mexico State University and Northwestern University has discovered a new exoplanet by analyzing years of data from an old observational ...

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

A Neptune-sized planet closely orbiting its host star has just been discovered, making it only the fourth object of its kind ever identified. Scientists detected the planet, designated TOI-3261 b, ...

An artist's depiction of the system showing the host star, transiting planet, misaligned transition disk, and wide binary companion (in the background). NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, K. Miller ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...

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Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: giant planets that loop around their stars on orbits so skewed they almost defy ...