A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Researchers have found a way to work out how to separate two classes of celestial bodies.

A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of ...

Learn about the first images of low-mass stars captured by SPARCS, a nanosatellite that could provide insight into exoplanets ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

A telescope about the size of a decent camera, operated from a tiny observatory in Sonoita, has discovered its third exoplanet. Researchers at Kitt Peak, meanwhile, have used its largest telescope, ...

Scientists have conducted the largest study so far of exoplanet spins. The research confirms a long-predicted relationship ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is potentially the ...

Quantum computers may help us see more exoplanets – and see them in more detail too. Astronomers have now found thousands of planets beyond our solar system, but they anticipate that there are ...

A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of ...