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

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

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

Learn why only 14 out of over 6,000 exoplanets orbit two stars, and how Einstein’s general theory of relativity may be to blame.

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

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.

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 ...

Two researchers have found an explanation for why we find almost no exoplanets orbiting binary stars. According to them, ...

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