Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the sun and thus exist outside the solar system. The word "exoplanet" ...

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to ...

Planets beyond our solar system can have magnetic fields similar to those closer to home, astronomers said Tuesday after observing extreme winds on scorching worlds known as "hot Jupiters." ...

In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much larger than previously thought. It's a finding that could change which distant ...

New Delhi: NASA’s official catalogue of exoplanets has crossed the 6,000 mark, with no single world considered to be the 6,000th entry. Exoplanets or extra-solar planets are worlds in orbits around ...

Irvine, Calif., July 14, 2025 — In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much larger than previously thought. It’s a finding ...

GJ 3378b has moved closer to the kind of world astronomers most want to find: small, rocky, temperate, and near enough for future telescopes to inspect in far greater detail. The planet circles a red ...

KELT-9b is a giant exoplanet hotter than some stars, reaching 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit on its surface. Yet, it somehow has an atmosphere. But a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope was built to study dark matter and dark energy, but for one day last year, it ...

What can carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international ...

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggest that 55 Cancri e, a rocky exoplanet about 41 light-years away ...