A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, launched from California's ...

Astronomers are gathering in Phoenix this week for the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247), where ...

The question of life on other worlds has become a serious area of research, writes science reporter Ivan Semeniuk. Over the ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

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

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

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

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

Scientists say they may have discovered an exoplanet capable of supporting life. The planet, a super-Earth named HD 20794 d, is located just 20 light-years away. It has a mass six times that of our ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last week, astronomers unveiled exciting new images of planets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani star ...

Join Peter, Richard and Nobel Prize winning astronomer Didier Queloz as they discuss "What If we settled on an exoplanet?".