An international team of astrophysicists using NASA's Kepler space telescope, which ceased operations in 2018, have discovered an exoplanet similar to Jupiter located 17,000 light-years from Earth ...

Astronomers have hoped for the existence of Planet Nine for years. Things were looking promising, but this discovery might ...

The farthest exoplanet we've found resides at just 28,000 light-years from Earth, ... Less than 2% of the exoplanets in NASA's 4,538-strong catalog have been found by this method, ...

Astronomers say they've found what may be the smallest and most distant planet known to be orbiting a star outside our own solar system.

With a field of view 100 times greater than the Hubble, NASA’s anticipated Roman Space Telescope is set to measure light from a billion galaxies, perform a microlensing survey deep in the Milky ...

Exoplanets are planets outside of our solar system. To date, scientists have confirmed the existence of more than 4,000 such planets in the Milky Way galaxy, often within 3,000 light years of ...

For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image, published by the journal Nature, of a new exoplanet — a planet that ...

Astronomers have discovered a small exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our sun. This newly discovered exoplanet designated as Barnard b [2] has at least half the mass ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

Now, by modeling about 5,300 real exoplanets, a team led by graduate student Megan Li of the University of California, Los Angeles was able to refine and reduce the maximum value for the drift ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists. The planet, called WD 1856+534 b, is a gas giant exoplanet the size of ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers claim in a new study. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...