So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

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Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a glimpse into planetary types missing from our own solar system but common in the ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...