Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on non ...

San Diego — A team of planet-hunting astronomers announced today (Jan. 9) the discovery of two multi-planet systems that are among the most bizarre planetary systems found to date. One system calls ...

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 ...

Artist's illustration of the European Space Agency's PLATO spacecraft in full operation. After nearly thirty years of extrasolar planet hunting, finding an earth-like planet orbiting another sunlike ...

About a decade ago the American space agency seriously started considering a series of telescopes dedicated to finding definitive proof of life on worlds located in other solar systems. It did so by ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.