Discovered in 2011 by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, TrEs-2b absorbs 99% of the light it is struck with and reflects only 1%, ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, literally and figuratively. This makes TOI-4465 b a rare case of a giant planet ...

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 ...

The year 2025 marked significant advancements in exoplanet science, revealing new discoveries and fresh perspectives on known ...

CNN — Ten years after the Kepler Space Telescope launched and revolutionized exoplanet discovery, Kepler-1658 b has finally been confirmed as the first exoplanet that the mission ever detected. It's ...

Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop—but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a chicken could lay. That’s a little like how our team ...