Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open ...

An exoplanet host with several background stars. If left uncorrected, the additional light from the background stars can lead to underestimated exoplanet size measurements. The square grid represents ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...