Exoplanet discoveries have become more commonplace since the first was discovered in the mid-1990s. The most popular method is the transit method. That’s ...

The exoplanet HR8799e isn’t a new discovery. It was first discovered in 2010 orbiting a young main-sequence star (a star fusing hydrogen atoms ...

The aptly named telescope captured the first confirmed image of a planet coming together. A young dwarf star, named PDS 70, is home ...

Add another 95 exoplanets to the total tally discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. One of them orbits the brightest star, HD 212657, confirmed ...

Another day, another exoplanet hailed as a good place to look for signs of life. In fact, the ESO press release suggests LHS ...

Astronomers have discovered atmospheres around exoplanets before. But those planets were much more massive than Earth. Think gas giants like Jupiter or super-Earths ...

Just over seven years ago, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft soared into the dark skies over Florida. And with its launch, Kepler revealed a whole ...

A planet with three stars? Sounds exciting, right? It is, but it’s the way scientists found it that is pretty damn cool. They ...

One of the newest exoplanet discoveries is also one of the rarest. KELT-4Ab sits in a triple-star system. It takes three days to ...

Every planet in our solar system journeys around the Sun in a circular orbit. But that’s not the case for at least one ...

More than 1,000 exoplanets have been spotted by scientists using the Kepler telescope. And, finding them is a chore. Scientists keep a close ...

Every year, more and more exoplanets are discovered. The latest one to join the list is designated GJ 1132b and sits about 39 ...