There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the ...

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

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

The existence of the planet, named AT2021uey b, took years to verify. Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low ...

The first sign of possible extraterrestrials detected in the cosmos didn't come in the form of little green aliens flying around in saucer-shaped spacecraft. In fact, the life that could be – emphasis ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by the show's two hosts, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hello, hello. REGINA BARBER AND EMILY KWONG: Hey, Ailsa ...

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 ...

What can space weather from our Sun teach scientists about the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers ...